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"The diversity of exhibitors, quality of speakers, an availability of CLE credit and networking opportunities makes this a valuable resource and a well-spent use of time."

Katherine Thornburgh

Partner, Engel Thornburgh & McCarney

"If you're in the legal tech industry, you simply must attend this event. It's a no brainer."

Rick Merrill

CEO, Gavelytics

"The time was well spent - presenters all were enthusiastic and vested in the issues; the topics were relevant; the information was useful and practical."

Maria Danaher

Ogletree Deakins

"Good overall experience and good assortment of vendors."

Lucy Jones

Director of Business Development, Association of Corporate Counsel

"Good event for staying updated on trends in the industry."

Adam Quam

Legal Technology Specialist, 3M

"Many different vendors and many clients, from multiple countries, attending to check out different tech. Great opportunity to meet with potential clients and to network with people who you wouldn't have had a chance to previously."

Mark Woodhouse

Legal Product Expert, Luminance

"Legalweek is a great opportunity to learn about various topics and new technologies. Anyone involved in the legal industry would definitely benefit from attending."

Harry A. Valetk is Of Counsel in the International Commercial Practice Group in the New York office, advising global organizations on privacy and data security compliance requirements. He regularly supports companies in the insurance and financial services sector, retail, pharmaceutical/ healthcare, transportation/ logistics, hospitality, defense, social media, cloud technology, and manufacturing industries. His practice is focused on delivering commercially practical advice on designing security, privacy, and technologically compliant solutions.

Gavin Williams is a Miami real estate attorney who serves as the head of Public and Charitable
Services for Holland & Knight’s Real Estate Section and is the co-chair of associate mentoring for
the Miami office. He also is actively involved in the firm’s Artificial Intelligence Committee.

Mr. Williams has represented lenders of all sizes and scale in their real estate finance needs for
more than 15 years. He has extensive experience working with national banks, regional and
community banks, private lenders, life insurance companies, as well as bridge and mezzanine
lenders. He also advises lenders on disposition of loans, including participation and assignments
and loan sales. While his primary focus is on Florida-based transactions, Mr. Williams routinely
advises lenders in multistate portfolios. He also is well-versed in assisting lenders with their financing of inventory, accounts receivable and other balance sheet assets, including specialized assets such as works of fine art.

In addition to his real estate work, Mr. Williams is outside counsel to the Bass Museum of Art in
Miami Beach.

Gregory is Vice President of Global Legal eDiscovery at Deutsche Bank where he focuses on every aspect of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM): the preservation, identification, collection, processing, review, and production of electronically stored information (ESI), including electronic Communications for internal investigations, civil litigation and regulatory inquiries.

Danielle is a Senior eDiscovery Attorney in the Boston office of Goodwin. She counsels in a variety of government actions, internal investigations and civil litigation matters. Danielle has significant experience negotiating, developing and implementing discovery plans across all stages of the eDiscovery lifecycle. She writes and speaks on eDiscovery and cybersecurity issues. Danielle is a co-chair of the ABA Section of Litigation Privacy and Data Security committee.

Michelle Treadwell Briggs is Counsel in Goodwin’s Litigation Department. Her practice focuses exclusively on advising Goodwin lawyers and clients on legal, technical and strategic issues involving electronic discovery and information management. She has wide experience in negotiating and managing all aspects of discovery and subpoena compliance, including developing and implementing the full range of electronic discovery and response strategies for government investigations and for complex commercial, antitrust and intellectual property litigation.

George is responsible for U.S. Operations of Luminance. He has held leadership positions with global technology companies and consulting firms, including Intel, Autonomy, Hewlett Packard, and Morae Global. He has extensive experience using analytics with regulated clients and the legal industry. George also led clients deploying petabyte-scale, secure compliance platforms. George holds an M.S. in Molecular Systematics, and a J.D. from DePaul University. He is admitted to practice law in the State of Illinois and the Federal District for the Northern District of Illinois.

Emily has 20 years’ experience of growing and scaling up technology-led businesses. First as a management consultant, and then with Betfair, BT and Equifax, she built teams to drive acquisition strategy and then delivered the integration, including the development and launch of new products. This gave her first-hand experience of the significant risks and opportunities that are often missed during due diligence processes, showing a clear need for AI to assist both in-house teams and law firms. In 2016 she became CEO of Luminance, the leading artificial intelligence platform for the legal industry. Luminance is founded on the latest breakthroughs in machine learning technologies at the University of Cambridge.

Paul is an innovator, attorney and consultant with deep experience in complex litigation, internal investigations, and electronic discovery compliance. As Director of Legal Solutions, Paul counsels Fortune 500 corporations and AmLaw 100 law firms on leveraging Thomson Reuters’ 1,200 talented, full-time attorneys for their litigation, compliance, and transactional needs. Paul provides specialized guidance to legal and compliance teams throughout the client advisory process and shares insights into all facets of the people, process, and technologies that drive tangible business results for his legal and compliance clients.

Prior to joining Thomson Reuters, Paul practiced for nine years in Chicago. While at Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, Paul’s work included complex litigation matters related to securities fraud, trade secrets, and commercial disputes. While at Jackson Lewis, P.C., Paul specialized in employment law compliance and litigation, class action litigation and electronic discovery. Paul also served as a faculty member to the National eDiscovery Leadership Institute.

For the past nine years, Paul has served on the Leadership Advisory Council for Cristo Rey Jesuit High School in Chicago. Paul received a B.A. magna cum laude from Georgetown University and a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law.

Carlos is the Senior Director of Innovation for Thomson Reuters’ Legal Business. In his role, he partners with different people inside and outside of the enterprise to define the innovation strategy, and to execute innovation priorities through strategic projects with the potential to drive organic growth. Projects include: running ideation and innovation campaigns and challenges, defining and funding collaborative research opportunities, advising on and performing proof of concepts, and developing and leveraging relationships for co-creation with customers and industry partners.

Carlos joined Thomson Reuters under its leadership development program where he performed roles across Strategy and Product Strategy. After the program, he served as the Chief of Staff to the General Counsel and as the lead for legal department operations. Later, he was also part of the Corporate Development group, where he led the evaluation and execution of acquisitions of companies. Prior to joining Thomson Reuters, he worked with start-ups in different capacities in Silicon Valley. Before that, he practiced intellectual property law in one of Mexico’s leading law firms. Carlos has a Bachelors in Law (LL.B.) from the Facultad Libre de Derecho de Monterrrey (Mexico), and obtained an LL.M. at Stanford Law School and an MBA at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Nicole Friedlander is a co-coordinator of Sullivan & Cromwell’s Cybersecurity Practice and is a member of its Criminal Defense and Investigations Group. Ms. Friedlander’s practice focuses on white-collar criminal defense, regulatory enforcement proceedings, internal investigations, and cybersecurity matters. She has particular expertise in fraud, anti-money laundering, tax and cybercrime cases.

Ms. Friedlander joined Sullivan & Cromwell in 2016 following eight years of service as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York. She was Chief of the Office’s Complex Frauds and Cybercrime Unit, where she oversaw the investigation and prosecution of sophisticated financial frauds, cybercrimes, money laundering and Bank Secrecy Act offenses, FCPA violations, criminal tax offenses and health care frauds. Ms. Friedlander personally led the successful investigation of the cyber intrusion, and largest-ever theft of customer data, at a U.S. financial institution. Ms. Friedlander also oversaw the indictment of seven defendants for engaging in coordinated cyberattacks on 46 financial institutions and hacking into the control systems of a New York dam, on behalf of the Government of Iran; the prosecution of a Russian national who created malware that victimized banks across the U.S. and Europe, which was named one of FBI’s top ten cases of the year; and the prosecution of the operator of the Silk Road website, a vast online black market for illegal drugs and other contraband. During her tenure at the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Ms. Friedlander also successfully tried numerous federal criminal cases and briefed and argued appeals before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Brent Goff has worked in the Legal Technology community for 5 years and currently is the Director of IT Infrastructure Operations at Davis Wright Tremaine LLP. Responsibilities include the operations, stability, performance and security of the IT infrastructure across offices, multiple data centers and cloud platforms.

Prior to DWT, Brent has worked with Littler Mendelson, PC and with the Federal Government on infrastructure technology projects around the globe in 134 different countries.

Adam Tyra is a Cybersecurity Expert with McKinsey & Company’s Cyber Solutions team. His core competency is the design and enhancement of cybersecurity operations organizations. He also has experience developing enterprise cybersecurity strategies and leading security software development teams.

Prior to joining McKinsey, Adam worked as a cybersecurity consultant and as a cyberspace operations development lead, architecting secure software solutions for the U.S. defense and intelligence communities. He also served as a cybersecurity officer in the U.S. Army.

Dan DiPietro, Principal of Dan DiPietro Consulting LLC, advises a select group of law firms on growth strategies, governance, and financial performance improvements. He is also a Senior Advisor to McKinsey & Co. in its law firm practice.

Dan is former Chairman of Citi Private Bank’s Law Firm Group (LFG), a business dedicated to serving the financial needs of over 650 law firms and 30,000 of their lawyers. Dan spent almost thirty years studying the evolution of the legal industry while at Citi. During his time leading LFG, he oversaw expansion into a number of markets in the US (Boston, Philadelphia, Houston and Dallas in Texas, Palo Alto, and Orange County) and the opening of its London office. He informally advised a number of firms during his time at Citi on combinations and acquisitions and gained valuable insights from law firm failures where Citi was the sole or lead bank.

Dan holds a B.A. from St. John’s University and an M.B.A. from Columbia University. He is on the faculty of Harvard Law School’s Leadership in Law Firms program.

In his spare time, Dan is a member of the Silly Shakespeare Company and Co-Director of the Scrooge Stroll and James Joyce Jaunt, annual celebrations of the works of Charles Dickens and Joyce’s Ulysses.. He is a dedicated practitioner of Iyengar yoga.

Bill is the Associate Director of Legal Operations at Ally Financial, overseeing Ally’s discovery and information governance operations and delivery programs. From 2007 to 2010, he was an Information Technology Program Manager, during which time he established Ally Legal’s technology platform, including matter, billing and document management. Prior to joining Ally, Bill worked in IT management for an AmLaw 200 law firm based in Detroit and as a lawyer in the regional headquarters of the Social Security Administration in Chicago. Bill holds a Juris Doctor from the University Of Louisville Brandeis School Of Law and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Michigan.

For legal professionals, Brett navigates firms of all sizes through e-discovery challenges and provides objective recommendations for litigation support tools and workflows.

For corporations, Brett lowers costs associated with litigation by assessing their information governance readiness and providing recommendations on how they can proactively manage voluminous data stores.

Brett is also a highly sought-after trainer and presenter for lawyers who seek to integrate Macs and iPads into their practice.

Brett is an esteemed author and speaker on legal technology topics. He has been a featured speaker at numerous legal technology conferences and served as Chair of the 2015 ABA TECHSHOW. Brett speaks regularly for local and state bar associations nationwide, and is routinely quoted in industry interviews for TechnoLawyer, Legaltech News, ABA Journal, and more.

Prior to Burney Consultants, Brett Burney supported lawyers at the law firm of Thompson Hine LLP where he worked with litigation teams in building electronic document databases, counseling on e-discovery issues, and managing the technical responsibilities of presenting evidence at trial.

Geoff is Managing Director at UnitedLex, leads the OhioLex and Boston University Legal Residency Programs, and serves as Adjunct Professor of Law at The Ohio State University where he co-teaches eDiscovery Law and Practice.

Geoff brings over thirteen years of legal process optimization and litigation discovery leadership experience, helping clients design defensible and cost-effective solutions to accelerate speed to legal intelligence and achieve better legal outcomes. Passionate about driving value for clients and opening new career pathways for lawyers and other legal professionals, Geoff has focused throughout his career on bridging gaps and building synergy among lawyers, technologists & business leaders.
Earlier in his career, he practiced with O’Connor, Cohn, Dillon & Barr where he focused on litigation and business counseling. Prior to that, Geoff worked in a variety of business and in-house legal roles for technology companies in the San Francisco Bay Area. Geoff began his career clerking for the Massachusetts Appeals Court and the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, after earning his law degree from Harvard Law School.

Rob Kerr has 20+ years of experience in the strategic planning, implementation and management of information systems and technology for corporations, governmental agencies and law firms. At Cooley, he oversees the information services, technology development and management, and knowledge management and research teams. Since his arrival 2+ years ago, Rob has rebuilt and restructured the information and technology department and deployed a new network infrastructure, marketing and business development technologies, collaboration tools and file and asset management applications.

Rob was the managing director for eSentio for almost seven years, working with many of the AmLaw 100 law firms. He worked as an associate director at Navigant Consulting, providing information lifecycle management consultation to legal and corporate clients. Prior to Navigant, Rob spent 8 years as a partner at Baker Robbins.

Rob is a published author and speaker on the subjects of information and enterprise content management, security, e-records archiving and retention, strategic planning and organization building team management.

Education
LeTourneau University

Todd Mattson is the Chief of Practice Systems & Services at Covington and has been with the firm since 2005. He leads the firm’s practice technology, paralegal, library, and staff attorney functions, and serves on the technology steering committee. After practicing law in Texas, Todd has held leadership positions at several AMLAW 100 firms on both coasts and has 25 years’ experience in the legal technology field. He lives in NYC and with his wife, kids, and dog, and can often be found on Amtrak between DC and NYC.

Highly Commended as Legal Innovator of the Year 2016

A highly experienced operational and transformational business leader who has been at the very vanguard of delivering legal market change and is internationally recognized as a leading market expert and innovator. Possesses excellent business and operational management skills, is highly competent at dealing with financial and commercial matters and has proven leadership capabilities.

At Hogan Lovells, charged with delivering quality, efficiency and innovation to Legal Service Delivery, globally. Areas include legal project management, legal service centres, flexible resourcing, service insight and machine learning.

Devised and created the Service Delivery & Quality Function at DLA Piper, Internationally – a core tenet of the firm’s future strategy focused at improving the quality and profitability of the work undertaken for clients which included leading research into the application of artificial intelligence within legal work.

Worked as a lawyer both in private practice and in-house during early career, before crossing the board table to become Managing Director of two divisions of Orange-France Télécom in the UK and Continental Europe. Uniquely, combines deep business and legal understanding to address the demands of the current legal market – notably being the architect and implementer of multi-award winning Managed Legal Service? for Thames Water – the first ever multi-year, fixed price deal for legal services.

Author of the widely read and followed lexfuturus.com blog and has a long track record of making the complex simple and the simple effective. He writes a column for LSN Briefing Magazine. Stephen was also a core contributor to the books ‘Remaking Law Firms’ (edited by Beaton, Kaschner) and Liquid Legal (edited by Jacob, Schindler and Strathausen).

Have built and lead large multi-disciplinary teams to devise, design, develop and deliver truly innovative and transformational legal solutions for law firm and corporate clients, alike – being recognized for such by FastCase50™ as one of the most courageous legal market innovators of 2013.

Patrick Dundas, an associate with Schulte Roth & Zabel, serves as the firm’s knowledge management associate for the Investment Management Group. In this role, Patrick provides the group with practice support (including advising on new issues of law affecting the private investment fund industry), knowledge brokerage services (connecting information seekers with information resources), knowledge innovation services (conceiving and developing new systems and procedures designed to increase efficiency), and knowledge management services (maintaining information repositories and overseeing compliance with internal procedures). Patrick received his J.D., cum laude, from Fordham University School of Law and his B.F.A. from New York University.

Gina Buser is the CEO and Co-Founder of Traveling Coaches, a talent development and change management consultancy headquartered in Dallas. Since 1995, Traveling Coaches has been a strategic partner to law firms helping them develop talent, build skills and competencies, increase performance, successfully implement change and influence behavior. Gina is a frequent speaker at ILTACON, LegalSEC, Sharon Swartworth Leadership Conferences, LegalTech, ALA and has received numerous honors and awards including Woman Business Owner of the year from the National Association of Woman Business Owners; Thought Leader of the Year from the International Legal Technology Association; 40 under 40 and Women in Business from the Dallas Business Journal; and Infinitely Beyond from Convene. However, Gina isn’t all business, all the time. When she’s not serving those less fortunate, networking with other business owners, or serving on the Board for her church, she enjoys “relaxing” with her family and friends. Gina also enjoys gardening, food, wine and travel.

As Chief Knowledge and Business Development Officer, Heather is responsible for the development and implementation of the firm’s knowledge management strategy and initiatives, and leading the firm’s business development and marketing functions. Heather works with the lawyers and the knowledge management and business development team to leverage the firm’s knowledge and work product and identify process and workflow improvements to generate efficiencies for the firm and its clients.

Mark Sportack is the Chief Information Officer of Crowell & Moring LLP. He has more than 30 years experience with information technologies in various industries, half of that as senior leadership in law firms. Mark has also authored numerous books on data networking, and has taught graduate classes at Syracuse University.

John Elbasan is the Chief Information Officer at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP. John has been championing digital transformation and the intersect of law and technology for over 20-years. Building integrated teams of high achievers who punch above their weight class inspires John to continue to forge the very next expression of technology in the industry. The concepts of ethos and mission are hallmarks of the talented people John has had the good fortune to work alongside. Their current collective passions encompass the “Software Defined Law Firm”. SD|LAW, we humbly believe, will drive a profound change in the practice of law through competitive software development. Firm originated Lawtech, akin to Fintech, will spark a new round of competitive advantages.

John is currently serving on ILTA’s G100 CIO Advisory Group and maintains regular speaking engagements with the New York State Bar Association and other industry focused forums. As a certified information security professional, John also provides advisory services to clients on their overall security readiness and governance programs.

As CEO, Josh leads strategy for Lex Machina and is a thought leader on leveraging technology to improve the practice of law.

Josh was part of the Founding team of Dice.com (NYSE:DHX) and ran corporate development at Agile Software (sold to Oracle). He was a Venture Capitalist at Redpoint Ventures and then a Founding General Partner of New Cycle Capital. Previously he also worked at McKinsey & Co. and Netscape.

Josh runs Startup2Startup, an entrepreneur dinner/discussion group and is active with the Stanford Angels and Entrepreneurs. He Chairs the Full Circle Fund, a coalition of technology and business leaders that collectively funds and supports leading social entrepreneurs.

Josh earned a joint J.D./M.B.A. from Stanford University and a B.A. from Williams College.

Dave Curran is Global Director Risk & Compliance with Thomson Reuters and works with our major clients to help address and mitigate systemic regulatory, compliance, risk and related challenges. Dave is a senior executive and lawyer who has deep experience at the intersection of business, law, technology, compliance and risk management, and preparedness. He has been on all sides of regulatory change – as General Counsel/Chief Compliance Officer, advisor, counselor and technology services provider – and has helped many companies navigate the complex waters of regulatory change through technology-driven process improvements. Dave was most recently CEO and Founder of Risk Readiness Corporation, a technology company focused on reputational risk, and EVP Business & Legal Affairs at IntraLinks, Inc. Dave has held senior positions at Integrity Interactive Corporation (compliance/ethics e-Learning) as well as senior legal and compliance roles at Campbell Soup Company, Reader’s Digest and Vertis, Inc.

Rena Andoh is a litigation partner with Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP in New York. Her broad practice ranges from complex commercial and trade secret/restrictive covenant enforcement cases to False Claims Act cases to intellectual property cases arising out of government contracts. Rena acts as first chair trial counsel in jury trials and arbitrations, and argues in appellate courts, including the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals and the First Department of the New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division.

Rena is an active supporter of Sheppard Mullin’s diversity and inclusion initiatives. She serves as vice-chair of the Attorneys of Color Success Initiative Committee (“ACSIC”), convened by the chair of Sheppard Mullin to advance the firm’s practices and programs to recruit, retain and promote attorneys of color and LGBTQ attorneys. She also vice-chairs Sheppard Mullin’s Diversity & Inclusion Committee. Rena is a 2015 Leadership Counsel for Legal Diversity (“LCLD”) Fellow, and is an active alumni and mentor in the LCLD organization.

Laura specializes in Law Department strategy and operations and has over 22 years of experience within the pharmaceutical industry. Laura is recognized as an insightful operations leader who drives strategic initiatives with the goal of excellence and unwavering operational ethics.

Laura’s expertise is derived from working in various functions including Law, Compliance & Ethics, Finance and Technology. Laura has in-depth experience and proven results in the areas of organizational design, change management, workflow/process improvement, e-billing, financial management, intellectual property portfolio management, technology implementation and the develop of metrics to demonstrate both performance and value.

In her current role, Laura works closely with the General Counsel and Leadership Team to develop and execute on strategic goals. In addition to strategy development and execution, Laura manages the department overall business and financial operations.

Kelly L. Donovan is a Managing Director in the New York City office of KPMG’s U.S. Advisory Services, Risk Consulting practice.

As a member of KPMG’s Investigations & Disputes Network and State & Local team, Ms. Donovan conducts state and national misconduct and fraud investigations, helps assess, design and implement regulatory compliance programs and provides fraud and risk management to public and private clients

Prior to joining KPMG, Ms. Donovan was the Executive Deputy Attorney General for Criminal Justice in the New York State Attorney General’s Office, and was responsible for all investigations, prosecutions and settlements involving the Criminal Division’s five main bureaus – Financial Crimes, Public Integrity, Organized Crime Task Force, Taxpayer Protection and the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit. Ms. Donovan created a Forensic Audit Unit and expanded the Office’s efforts combatting political and financial corruption, real estate and housing fraud, crimes involving not for profits and heroin and gun trafficking. She served on the Justice Task Force and the New York State District Attorney Association’s Best Practice Committee. During this time, she also served as Counsel to the Moreland Commission on Public Corruption. She previously served as Chief of Investigations for the NYS Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, where led investigations into among other things, financial fraud and patient neglect by nursing home providers, large scale illegal drug buy back schemes, over-prescribing and sale of opioid prescriptions, false claims acts and patient protection matters.

Seth Eichenholtz is the Head of eDiscovery at MasterCard. He has oversight of the preservation, collection, processing and production of data for litigation and regulatory matters. As part of MasterCard’s Corporate Security Investigations team, he is also integral to managing internal investigations, incident/breach response, and related cross border data transfers for those matters.

Prior to joining MasterCard in 2016, Seth spent more than five years as Vice President and eDiscovery Manager for Swiss Re. During his time at Swiss Re, Seth focused on managing all facets of eDiscovery for matters that encompassed claims-based disputes, litigation, regulatory and investigative matters for all Swiss Re entities globally. This included drafting and managing legal holds, establishing collection, processing, culling and data transfer strategies and processes. He supervised various special projects involving Information Governance, including data dispositions, and liaising with several business units regarding key initiatives (including privacy, data protection and related best practices).

Seth started his career as a tax attorney with PricewaterhouseCoopers, and has extensive litigation experience managing and providing computer forensic and eDiscovery services since 2000.

His management of cases encompasses IT audits, data breaches, internal investigations, and litigation of numerous types (including Insurance and Reinsurance, breach of contract, Intellectual Property, Patent, theft of trade secrets, employment, sexual harassment, divorce). His skills in identifying custodians and specific relevant media, data analysis, assessing case parameters both in substance and cost, affords him a unique ability to paint a clear picture of the volume, category and relevance of electronic data in various types of matters.

Seth attended NYLS, and graduated magna cum laude from SUNY Buffalo.

Manfred J. Gabriel is a Principal in KPMG’s Forensic Technology Services practice, where he focuses on electronic discovery. He provides clients with a wide range of services from enterprise-level e-discovery management to delivery on large, complex e-discovery projects. Manfred has many years of experience advising leading companies on various key areas including:

Responding to litigation e-discovery requests, including data identification and collection, data processing and hosting, and structuring document reviews, quality control, and document productions.
Advanced e-discovery workflows, with a particular focus on technology-assisted review or predictive coding, statistical sampling and statistical process control, as well as streamlining and integrating the various aspects of complex e-discovery projects.

Litigation readiness, litigation holds, and data preservation.

In addition, Manfred assists companies to put into place efficient systems and innovative technologies to control cost and risk in e-discovery.

As a former practicing antitrust attorney, Manfred has successfully assisted clients respond to large, fast-paced regulatory requests, such as Second Requests in merger investigations and CIDs. He has worked with Fortune 1000 companies in several industries, including high tech, transportation, pharmaceuticals, and financial services.

Rachael Lee Zichella practices both commercial litigation and labor and employment law at Taylor English, where she is a partner with experience representing corporations, boards of directors, and individuals in complex matters. She regularly appears nationwide in federal and state courts, and in arbitration, and litigates matters through trial, which she greatly enjoys.

Ms. Zichella is an active participant in its educational and charitable endeavors. She presently serves as one of the founding co-chairs of the e-Discovery and the Use of Technology Section of the Georgia Bar, which develops programming to educate and train Georgia lawyers across practice areas about all facets of legal technology and e-discovery, including the tools and applications, best practices and procedures, applicable rules and laws, and ethical considerations. She is also a member of the Georgia Appleseed Young Professionals Council.

As Managing Corporate Counsel, eDiscovery at T-Mobile, Ms. Blanchard uses her deep knowledge of the intersection of litigation, technology and discovery to work with all areas of the legal department on document preservation, collection and review issues. She regularly works with a variety of business segments at T-Mobile in connection with Government inquiries and private litigations as well as assessing Records Management practice and information governance across the company. She participates in several enterprise wide groups to implement new technologies and systems. Prior to joining T-Mobile, Ms. Blanchard spent 14 years as a litigator at Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, where she represented several Fortune 50 companies in a variety of complex litigation matters as national eDiscovery Counsel. She also spent 2 years as Associate General Counsel and Director, eDiscovery Consulting at Evolver Legal Services where she counseled core clients to develop litigation plans that included negotiating the scope of discovery as well as conducting early case assessment and understanding the options for review, including technology assisted review. Ms. Blanchard earned her J.D. from American University, and Bachelor’s degrees in International Business, Japanese Studies and Psychology from Ohio Wesleyan University. She is admitted to the Washington State Bar and Virginia Bar. An active member of Sedona and Women in eDiscovery and a frequent speaker at eDiscovery conferences, Ms. Blanchard enjoys talking with others about Discovery Best Practices and sharing war stories.

Kenneth C. Koch leads KPMG LLP’s Forensic Technology Services Practice in the Southeast U.S. He has over twenty years of information systems experience with both the U.S. Government and private industry. He has extensive experience in computer forensics, electronic discovery, and investigations.

Ken advises clients on eDiscovery strategy and program development, and assists clients with negotiations, and in fulfilling their discovery obligations for litigation matters and regulatory inquiries. Ken has aided clients in some of the most significant crises in the history of their companies including multi-billion dollar product liability cases, environmental matters, trade secret litigation, and significant regulatory scrutiny. He has substantial experience in modeling burden associated with document production requests and articulating such in affidavits, during depositions, and at hearings. He has helped clients across various industries including Automotive, Financial Services, Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, and Technology, Media, and Telecom. Ken is also a Certified Fraud Examiner and joined KPMG in 2002 after serving 10 years on active duty in the USAF where he conducted criminal and counterintelligence investigations as a Special Agent in the Air Force Office of Special Investigations.

A nearly ten year veteran of the company, Tom Finke is Managing Director, West Region Operations at Axiom, overseeing the teams that serve some of the company’s largest clients. Tom is also an Adjunct Professor of Law at Northwestern University, from which he received his JD/MBA, and a recipient of the ACC Value Challenge Award. Prior to Axiom, Tom was a senior executive at Tribune Interactive, the online division of Tribune Company responsible for online revenue growth across newspapers such as the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times and over 30 broadcast stations.

Martin joined Ernst & Young in 1985, and held a variety of internal management positions before he joined Masons (Solicitors) as IT Director. In 1997 Martin joined Mallesons Stephen Jaques as Executive Director, IT and was then CIO at Minter Ellison before joining Baker & McKenzie in 2005 as Asia Pacific Regional IT Director. He moved to Manila in 2007 to oversee Baker’s Shared Services Center, and then in 2009, Martin took up the CIO role at Baker’s before leading Baker’s significant SAP project which went live in late 2014 across 78 offices in 50 countries. Recently, Martin joined Fulcrum GT as SVP / EMEA Chief, responsible for the European and AP markets.

Martin is a prior Honorary Technical Fellow at Strathclyde University’s Centre for Law & Technology, a past Vice President of the UK Society for Computers & Law, and MACS and MIEE accredited.

Ms. Beaumont’s 25-year legal, technology and business background is truly unique in the industry. Ms. Beaumont is pragmatic and ROI oriented. She holds the big picture and also understands the devil is not only in the details, but in the speed with which problems are resolved. Success ultimately hinges on strategy and execution under necessary return on investment demands. Ms. Beaumont advises enterprise clients and others on multi-stakeholder data management challenges and legal/regulatory requirements, using cutting-edge technology within a legally defensible framework.

Ms. Beaumont graduated from Northwestern University School of Law (JD ’92). As an experienced litigator and early adopter of technology to solve global discovery challenges (pre-email), Ms. Beaumont founded a litigation management firm, advising clients on a multitude of E-Discovery and other data challenges. Ms. Beaumont then joined Google as in-house counsel to form the company’s Global E-Discovery Department. Ms. Beaumont also served as subject matter expert on development of Cloud and IG/ Records Management products. In addition, Ms. Beaumont’s entrepreneurial and screenwriting (UCLA) background benefits her clients through creative communication balanced with a deep appreciation for real-world business environments.

Anna Simpson is the Technical Practice Lead and a Chief Architect for the Information Governance product portfolio at Veritas. Based in the US, she has played a leading role in the design and implementation of Information Governance strategies for enterprises globally. Since 2002, Anna has lived and worked in three different continents and contributed to successful software startups in spaces ranging from legal to information management. In 2010 she joined Clearwell, a pioneer in the eDiscovery space. As eDiscovery evolved and matured, Clearwell became the market leader and was acquired by Symantec (now Veritas) in 2011. In her current role, Anna drove the Dark Data Assessment initiative which continues to help organizations globally gain visibility into their unstructured data and associated risk. These experiences give her an interesting perspective on the global regulatory landscape and increasing information governance challenges faced by organizations across all verticals.

In his role as Chief Business Officer + General Counsel, Paul Seeman oversees the growth and start-up strategies as well as the business operations at UI LABS. UI LABS is a tech accelerator with over 300 members focused on smart manufacturing and smart infrastructure that is funded by both the Department of Defense and the MacArthur Foundation.

Prior to UI LABS, Paul was the general counsel of LAMB Partners, a Forbes 400 family office. In his role at LAMB, Paul oversaw the formation and growth of Rush Street Gaming, a casino that opened and operated 5 land-based casinos and an online casino operation during Paul’s tenure. In addition, at LAMB, Paul oversaw all legal issues related to investments in hedge funds, funds of hedge funds, litigation finance funds, start-up companies and other one-off investments.

Paul has been studying and investing in litigation finance since 2011. Prior to joining LAMB, Paul worked in the hedge fund group at Sidley Austin in Chicago and in the corporate group (with a focus on hedge funds) at Willkie Farr & Gallagher in New York. Paul is a graduate of Duke University and the University of Virginia School of Law. Paul currently serves as the Chairman of Illinois Legal Aid Online.

Mr. Cohen oversees all aspects of the Firm’s litigation technology, practice & client services, electronic discovery operations and document review centers. Throughout his career, Mr. Cohen has worked in a consultative capacity with law firms and corporate legal departments enabling them to effectively leverage technology in all legal practice areas. With a focus on electronic discovery, complex data analytics, and litigation readiness, Mr. Cohen advises firm lawyers and clients on a wide range of topics relating to discovery in complex litigation. Mr. Cohen is a frequent writer and speaker on a variety of subjects ranging from electronic discovery best practices and legal cost control to leadership development, performance management and staff mentoring in legal organizations.

Prior to joining Winston & Strawn, Mr. Cohen was the Practice Support Director for Proskauer Rose where he was responsible for the development and operation of the firm’s practice support department. Mr. Cohen also served as the Director of Information Technology for MetLife where he was responsible for providing general technology and litigation support services to the corporation’s large and geographically dispersed legal, records and internal audit departments.

Mr. Cohen is a member of The Sedona Conference Working Group on Electronic Document Retention and Production, an adjunct instructor in the Bryan University Department of Electronic Discovery, and an executive board member of the East Coast Association of Litigation Support Managers. He is also an advisory board member of the Association of Certified eDiscovery Specialists and an active member of the International Legal Technology Association Practice & Litigation Support peer group, the Association for Information and Image Management and the American Records Management Association.

Robert Ambrogi is a lawyer and legal journalist who has been writing and speaking about legal technology and the Internet for more than two decades. He writes the award-winning blog LawSites, is a columnist for Above the Law, and cohosts the longest-running legal podcast, Lawyer2Lawyer, as well as the podcast Law Technology Now.

In 2011, Bob was named to the inaugural Fastcase 50, honoring “the law’s smartest, most courageous innovators, techies, visionaries and leaders.” In 2017, he received the Yankee Quill award for journalism from the Academy of New England Journalists and was honored by the ABA Journal as a Legal Rebels Trailblazer.

Earlier in his career, he was editor-in-chief of The National Law Journal and editorial director of ALM’s Litigation Services Division. A 1980 graduate of Boston College Law School, he is a fellow of the College of Law Practice Management and immediate past-president of the Massachusetts Bar Foundation.

Dan is the CEO and Managing Director of Nextlaw Ventures (NLV): he has a rare combination of entrepreneurial, professional services and investing experience. As a serial entrepreneur, Dan has helped to conceive, fund, grow and/or sell disruptive businesses in many diverse sectors, including social media, financial services, and on-line recruiting. He also has almost twenty years of professional services experience including roles leading the Global Media Practice for the Boston Consulting Group and with Arthur Young & Company advising start-ups. As an investor, Dan leads Nextlaw Ventures, which focuses on early stage investing in the legal tech space. NLV has now completed the investing activity of NLV Fund 1 with a portfolio of ten leading legal tech companies from around the world. A larger NLV Fund 2 is underway. NLV’s early stage focus and value added ‘invest and pilot’ approach leverages subject matter experts from Dentons, Nextlaw Labs and the Nextlaw Global Referral Network (with over 500 small to mid-size law firm members from around the world) to vet, test, shape, pilot and launch the legal tech solutions in the NLV portfolio.

Prior to Nextlaw Ventures, Dan was the CEO of Nextlaw Labs, an autonomous and wholly owned subsidiary of Dentons, the largest law firm in the world. Dan built a global collaborative innovation platform focused on developing, deploying, and investing in new technologies and processes that can transform the practice of law around the world. The simple goal is faster, better, cheaper legal solutions. Before leading Nextlaw Labs, Dan founded Virtual Greats, an online business selling branded virtual items utilized by over 200 well-known global brands and 25 on-line communities to promote products and services through a number of different digital channels. He serves on several for profit and non-profit boards, has recently served as the Mayor of his small ski hamlet, and speaks regularly on the re-invention of the legal profession. Dan holds a BA in Economics from UCLA and an MBA from the Wharton School, where he specialized in Marketing and Finance. He splits his time between Manhattan Beach, California and Telluride Colorado where he lives with his wife, three children and golden retriever.

Andrea Markstrom serves as Blank Rome’s Chief Information Officer, responsible for leading Firm-wide technology and security initiatives across all of Blank Rome’s practices and geographies. In her role, Ms. Markstrom strategically leverages the Firm’s technology, leadership, and administrative teams to expand Blank Rome’s innovative technology offerings for both the Firm’s clients and professional staff and attorneys. She also advances cutting-edge technology solutions to support the Firm’s business objectives and ongoing, geographic growth. Ms. Markstrom has more than 25 years of experience in the technology sector, including leading technology organizations for Faegre Baker Daniels LLP and Target Corporation.

Brett C. Don is Chief Information Officer at Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, a 200-attorney, multi-office law firm. Leveraging his two decades of experience as a legal industry business consultant and Am Law 200 technology executive, Brett oversees firmwide technology and information security initiatives with an emphasis on ensuring Stradley Ronon’s systems are optimized and secure to meet the needs of its clients, attorneys and staff.

Brett previously served as Chief Information and Risk Officer for Dickstein Shapiro and as Chief Information Officer for Wiley Rein.

Ivana leads the Davies knowledge management program for the Toronto office and is responsible for the program’s knowledge management strategic direction, projects and infrastructure. She works with the lawyers on a variety of initiatives aimed at leveraging the firm’s internal resources to deliver greater value to clients, focusing on excellence in quality, consistency and efficiency. Ivana also heads the firm’s various initiatives on pricing and process improvement strategy, with a view to creating new solutions, improving existing processes and ultimately meeting client objectives. Before assuming this role, Ivana practiced for over five years in the Davies corporate and securities group, focusing on mergers and acquisitions, and corporate finance.

Monet is the Senior Manager of Transactional Practice Technology at White and Case, based in New York. She is tasked with strategically overseeing and implementing the use of new legal technology tools, processes and AI-enabled tools for transactional practices at the firm.Prior to joining White and Case, she served in Knowledge Management roles at the firms Morrison Foerster and Cooley LLP. A former trial lawyer, her passion for legal technology began when she joined an eDiscovery startup in 2008.

Mercy has over twenty years of experience challenging companies to build innovative growth strategies by assessing core capabilities, energizing employee creativity and defining clear action plans. Mercy has been associated with Strategos since 2006, first as a client and then as a consultant.

Mercy’s recent projects include an electronics company seeking innovative growth platforms in healthcare, a materials company looking to refresh its brand and a transportation company seeking to improve channel strategy. Each project resulted in funded investments and experimentation plans that will expand the customer benefits delivered.

Mercy’s primary industry experience is in solid waste management and financial services where she developed not only significant strategy experience but also extensive functional expertise in financial planning and corporate finance. She is also a Certified Public Accountant.

Mercy has an AB in classics from Princeton University and an MBA from Columbia.

Jacqueline Wilson Cranford is a trusted adviser, strategic planner, and dynamic trainer with a passion for advancing diversity and inclusion in the legal profession. Drawing upon nearly 30 years of legal industry experience, Jackie advises her clients on talent management strategies, with a focus on the intersections among talent management, diversity, and inclusion.

Jackie is the founder and principal of Cranford Advisory Services LLC and an affiliate of The Verna Myers Company. Prior to establishing Cranford Advisory Services, Jackie gained invaluable insights into the legal profession as a paralegal in a boutique law firm, a litigator and senior administrator in three American Lawyer 100 firms, and as a trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice. As a law firm administrator, Jackie successfully designed and implemented talent management strategies relating to, among other things, diversity, inclusion, recruiting, professional development, performance management, leadership development, and global integration.

Jackie serves as a Lecturer with Georgetown University’s Center for Continuing and Professional Education Department and a Trusted Advisor to the Professional Development Consortium. She has held leadership positions with several professional organizations, including NALP and the Association of Law Firm Diversity Professionals, of which she was a founding member. Jackie is a graduate of Oral Roberts University and the University of Virginia School of Law.

AERO Foundation is developing point of access technology for drone navigation using the blockchain.

Chase attended Loyola University Chicago School of Law.

Michael began his legal career as an IP litigator at a leading intellectual property boutique in New York City. Michael’s practice focused on a variety of IP counseling, including litigation in federal courts, the ITC, and the PTAB; and trademark and copyright litigation and deals representing some of the world’s largest brands.

While a litigator, Michael built legal analysis tools, which would eventually lead to his founding of Docket Alarm, a litigation analytics and research company. In 2015, Michael left the law to develop Docket Alarm full time. Over the next two years, numerous AMLaw100 and Fortune 500 companies have come to rely on Docket Alarm’s analytics and research tools. His platform has won numerous accolades, including ALM’s Innovation award, being featured on a television special on artificial intelligence and the law, as well as being named a Legal AI Leader of 2018 in the National Law Journal.

Rick is chief information officer for Harris Beach where he establishes, plans, and administers the overall policies and goals for the information technology and telecommunications departments. Rick oversees the analysis of the full range of technology needs of the firm and its practice areas and departments, and establishes priorities for feasibility studies, systems design, and project implementation to develop new or modify existing information processing systems. He is also a member of the firm’s e-discovery (e-info℠) practice, overseeing the IT professionals who provide litigation and e-discovery support of the team.

Rick is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional and Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control. He received the National Law Journal’s Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Trailblazers award in 2015.

Lisa Markey is the Chief Information Security Officer at Shearman & Sterling LLP, where she oversees all aspects of the firm’s global information security and governance functions. Prior to joining Shearman & Sterling, Lisa served as Head of Information Risk Management at Barclays Investment Bank, Corporate and Wealth Management divisions, and was also the firm’s Chief Privacy Officer for the Americas. Lisa’s technology career goes back to the mid-nineties, when she specialized in server engineering, messaging and networking, and she began her career in Security and GRC with Lehman Brothers in 2000, managing global Security Operations and Engineering functions for the bank. She holds a Bachelors in Industrial Management from Trent University, Nottingham, UK, and a Masters’ degree in Information Security from the University of London, as well as multiple industry qualifications including CIPP/US and CISM. Originally from London, Lisa is based in New York.

Vic Peterson has been the chief information officer at Stinson Leonard Street (http://www.stinsonleonard.com/), and based in Kansas City, since January 2011. Since taking the position, he has focused on improving attorneys’ workflows and business issues. His trade articles and interviews have appeared in Bloomberg BigLaw, CIO Review, CIO Applications, Minnesota Lawyer, and other venues.

Mike Klein joined the Altria family of companies in 2005 and is an assistant general counsel responsible for managing, among other things, litigation support, including all eDiscovery.

Prior to joining Altria, Mike was a partner in the Washington DC office of Patton Boggs, LLP where he focused primarily on commercial litigation. Prior to joining Patton Boggs, Mike served as a prosecutor and administrative law attorney in the U.S. Army’s Judge Advocate General’s Corps. Prior to serving as a military attorney, Mike was an Infantry Officer, serving in both the 82nd Airborne Division and 1st Special Operations Command. Mike retired from the Army as a lieutenant colonel in 2006 after 21 years of service, which included service in Europe, Russia, Central America, Afghanistan and Cuba.

Heather Jacobson has worked with corporate law department leadership on strategic and operational initiatives for over 10 years. Heather helps law departments define their vision and goals and develop applicable processes, roles, systems, and training to create sustainable savings and efficiencies.

Heather leads and manages client projects ranging in size and complexity. Most recently, she led multiple multi-year law department transformation that resulted in 15-30% cost savings through transformational change. Both projects involved law departments of 600+ team members.
Heather has worked with clients in various industries, such as: financial services, consumer products, technology, and manufacturing. Heather is known for her creativity in solving the complex challenges that corporate law departments face.

Previously, Heather was a Director at Huron Legal where, in addition to her client work, she led the continuous improvement of project methodology, facilitated leadership training programs, and was an advisor to the women’s networking group. She also served on the Associate Board for Coordinated Advice & Referral Program for Legal Services (CARPLS) in Chicago.

Heather received her BA in Finance from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and MBA in Finance and Operations Management from DePaul University.

Arthur R. Miller CBE is this nation’s leading scholar in the field of civil procedure and is co-author with the late Charles Wright of Federal Practice and Procedure, the legendary treatise in the field. Professors Miller and Wright are among the most-often cited and well regarded law treatise writers today. Their multi-volume series is an essential reference for judges and lawyers.

Arthur Miller is also one of the nation’s most distinguished legal scholars in the areas of civil litigation, copyright and unfair competition, and privacy. He is the author of more than 40 books and numerous articles, including The Assault on Privacy: Computers, Data Banks, and Dossiers, the first book warning of the threat to privacy posed by modern information technology. Miller is currently a University Professor at New York University and the NYU School of Continuing and Professional Studies. This professorship is conferred on outstanding scholars in recognition of the interdisciplinary dimension and breadth of their work. Previously, Miller was the Bruce Bromley Professor of Law at Harvard, where he earned his law degree and taught for 36 years.

Miller has argued cases in all of the US Circuit Courts of Appeal and several before the US Supreme Court. He has worked in the public interest in the areas of privacy, computers, copyright, and the courts and has served as a member and reporter of the Advisory Committee of Civil Rules of the Judicial Conference of the US by appointment of two chief justices of the United States, as reporter and adviser to the American Law Institute, a member of a special advisory group to the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, and as a member of various American Bar Association committees, among others. In addition, Miller was appointed by President Ford as commissioner on the United States Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyrighted Work.

HOWARD S. HOFFMANN, Chief Executive Officer of EXTEND Resources, is a senior executive with 40 years of financial, operational and general management experience in a wide range of industries. He has extensive experience in driving operational performance improvement through the use of disciplined processes enabled by technology, implementing financial, operational and security controls and procedures, and fostering high performing cultures, both domestically and internationally. During his career, Howard has also helped companies navigate through complex litigation (single plaintiff, class action, and government) and government investigation matters.

In his role at EXTEND Resources, Howard has driven the strategic positioning of the firm in the areas of information security, contract lifecycle management, eDiscovery, business process outsourcing and fractional senior management services. Howard serves in an executive business management role for a law firm and in a senior advisory role for an offshore facilities management company. In addition, Howard currently serves as a director of NII Holdings, a publicly traded company serving the wireless telecom industry in Brazil.

Charles Glasser spent twelve years as the Global Media Counsel for Bloomberg News, where he was responsible for pre-publication review, ethics issues, and training more than 2,200 reporters in more than 120 bureaus around the world on legal issues and journalistic fundamentals, particularly focusing on investigative and business news. He also managed media litigation globally, and is acknowledged as an expert in international media law. He is the author and editor of “The International Libel and Privacy Handbook” (Fourth Edition, 2016-17, Lexis/Nexis) and is a regular panelist and contributor for several media law and journalism organizations including The Media Law Resource Center, The Committee to Protect Journalists, and the Media Law Defence Institute (UK). He also writes for and appears regularly for Reuters, The Washington Examiner, Talking BizNews, i24 TV and others.

Prior to studying law, Mr. Glasser was a journalist from 1979 to 1992, covering spot news, combat correspondence and enterprise reporting for daily newspapers and wire services, filing stories from El Salvador, Cuba, Haiti, Miami, Nicaragua, Great Britain and India. He later studied law at the New York University School of Law, worked with U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Brennan at NYU’s Brennan Center, and started his legal career at NBC News, working on Dateline and NBC Nightly News.

His personal interests include restoration of vintage Jaguar automobiles and he is an accomplished blues and jazz guitarist. He is also involved in The Prem Rawat Foundation’s “Food for People” program, a 501(c)3 charity that builds fresh water wells and has established food centers across India and sub-Saharan Africa.

Nicolas Economou is the chief executive of H5 and was a pioneer in advocating the application of scientific methods to electronic discovery. He contributes actively to advancing dialogue on public policy challenges at the intersection of law, science, and technology. He is a Senior Advisor to the Artificial Intelligence Initiative of the Future Society at Harvard Kennedy School, the chair of the Future Society’s Science, Law and Society Initiative, and a member of the Law Committee of the IEEE’s Global Initiative for Ethical Considerations in Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems.

Nicolas has been featured in Forbes magazine and is the author of a number of published articles on issues relating to technology and the practice of law. He has spoken before legal audiences at a wide variety of conferences and organizations, including Stanford Law School and the American Bar Association, and appeared with United States Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer at a groundbreaking summit hosted by Georgetown University Law Center and moderated by Arthur R. Miller, the Bruce Bromley Professor of Law at Harvard Law School (“And Justice for All: How the Electronic Information Explosion is Transforming the American Legal System”).

Nicolas was a member of the Law and Judiciary policy committee for Barack Obama’s first presidential campaign. He serves as a student mentor at the Executive Master of Science in Technology program at Columbia University’s School of Professional Studies. Trained in political science at the Graduate Institute of International Studies of the University of Geneva (Switzerland), he earned his M.B.A. from the Wharton School of Business, and chose to forgo completion of his M.P.A at Harvard’s Kennedy School in order to co- found H5.

Amy S. Mushahwar is an experienced data privacy, security, and management attorney with nearly 20 years of experience in the technology industry in both legal and technical capacities. She focuses on data security, cyber risk, and privacy issues. As both a lawyer and former technologist, Amy is adept at helping clients unravel complex systems to fully understand legal and regulatory risk. Amy has appeared before regulators in privacy/security regulatory actions of first impression before agencies such as: the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS), the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).

Amy’s data security and privacy advice is informed by her experience negotiating for businesses on privacy, cybersecurity, and Internet governance issues within international bodies, including the World Wide Web Consortium (WC3) and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). She has attended past ICANN meetings in Prague, Toronto, Beijing, and Durban.

Before entering the law, Amy spent several years as a technology consultant, performing network security design and implementation. From 1997 to 2001, she owned and operated a technology consulting company.

David T. Blonder serves as chief global regulatory counsel and legal data protection officer for BlackBerry and is the company’s primary legal resource on data protection and cybersecurity, competition, and he manages other legal regulatory and commercial matters. He was awarded a BlackBerry service award in 2016 for his extraordinary contributions toward supporting a series of key strategic acquisitions in 2015 enabling the company’s turnaround.

Prior to joining BlackBerry, he practiced competition law in private firms in Washington, DC and as a Trial Attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division. He is based in Arlington, VA.

Paul has served, and continues to serve, in firm leadership roles to include firm-wide Management Committee, Office Managing Shareholder, National/International Client Services Committee and the firm’s Diversity and Inclusion Steering Committee. Through Paul’s leadership, the Philadelphia office was named SmartCEO’s “2015 Law Firm of the Year” and Paul a finalist of the “Industry Practice Attorney of the Year”. Paul has been honored “Pennsylvania Diverse Attorney of the Year” in 2013 by The Legal Intelligencer (oldest law journal in the United States), a “Best Attorney in Philadelphia” by the Philadelphia Inquirer as well as “Top Lawyer in Pennsylvania” by the National Law Journal both since 2014 and Pennsylvania Super Lawyer 2015 to present. Additionally, in 2013 the Philadelphia Business Journal selected him to receive the “Minority Business Leader Executive Award” which distinguishably recognizes top level corporate executives and advocates who play a strong role in their respective industries and communities.

Although trained as a lawyer, Ms. Williams is not actively engaged in the practice of law. Instead, she oversees BakerNet, the Firm’s industry-leading intranet, and coordinates strategic growth on behalf of the Firm in knowledge management, competitive intelligence and technology.

Ms. Williams also oversees many of the Firm’s tools that allow us to partner with clients and deliver cutting-edge legal support. She directs the Firm’s collaborative, web-based suite of online client services, which includes determining delivery methods and pricing structures. She is also the lead contact for information and pricing on the Firm’s wholly-owned subsidiary Mitigated Risks, LLC, which offers online compliance and training resources to companies of all sizes.

Ms. Williams is widely recognized as a leading authority in knowledge management issues for the legal field, and is a frequent presenter and author on knowledge management and competitive intelligence. Follow her on Twitter @mlwilliams77.

As Director, responsible for accelerating region growth, profitability and client success. Leading the regions rapid personnel growth, while guiding and managing the expansion of our team knowledge and cross partner and platform solution expertise. Driving excellence across all aspects of our business delivery and client experience.

Adrian Phillips (@adrianpphillips) leads product marketing for Citrix ShareFile. With a diverse career dating back to the dot-boom era, his passion is helping customers transform the way they work by using cloud-based technologies.

Striving to live a paperless life in Raleigh, N.C., Adrian holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism.

Greg is the Chief Knowledge Services Officer at the law firm of Jackson Walker in Houston, Texas, where he oversees operations for the Library, Research, RFP, and Conflicts & Intake departments.

He is the current President for the American Association of Law Libraries, and is known as an advocate for law librarians and legal information professionals.

Greg is a founding blogger for 3 Geeks and a Law Blog, and writes extensively on the topics of law librarianship, competitive intelligence, knowledge management, and the roles that can be played on the administrative side of large law firms.

Brian is Chair of the Firm’s Global IT/C Data Security Steering Committee, and a Member of the Firm’s Global Privacy Steering Committee. He is listed in The Legal 500 Hall of Fame and was recognized as a Regulatory & Compliance Trailblazer by the National Law Journal. He is also listed as a Leading Lawyer for Cyber law (including data protection and privacy) in The Legal 500, listed in Chambers USA and the Computer World Ranking of Top Privacy Advisors.

James is a Partner at McKinsey, in the New York Location of the Business Technology Office. He co-leads the Firm’s global practices in IT infrastructure and cyber-security. In 15 years at McKinsey, James has assisted client in financial services, health care and advanced manufacturing set technology strategies, optimize infrastructure operations, adopt cloud capabilities, prioritize technology risks and manage multi-year cybersecurity programs. He also assists private equity firms in making investments in the enterprise technology and cybersecurity markets.

James has published on enterprise infrastructure and cybersecurity issues in the McKinsey Quarterly, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, the HBR blog network and other periodicals. He led McKinsey’s collaboration with the World Economic Forum on “Risk & Responsibility in a Hyper-connected World” for the Forum’s 2014 Annual Meeting in Davos. Most recently, he is the author of “Beyond Cybersecurity: Protecting Your Digital Business” (Wiley, 2015).

Ashu has 23 years of technology and consulting experience focused on helping business and technology leaders harness the power of Collaboration and Analytics across the enterprise. With technology trends such as cloud, mobility, big data and consumerization of IT, collaboration and analytics have become even more important; leaders are looking to leverage insights in making information actionable.

Mr. Goel has helped clients in a variety of industries such as Hi-Tech, Financial Services, Healthcare and Retail. He is a Haas MBA graduate from Berkeley and has a BS from IIT Roorkee. He worked for leading organizations like A.T. Kearney and Microsoft prior to starting WinWire in 2007.

John Hawley is Vice President of Product Strategy for Delta Risk. John has been working in the security space for more than 15 years and is a frequent conference speaker, often focusing on how enterprises embrace new approaches to security to move at the accelerating speed of business.

Prior to joining Delta Risk in 2017, he served as Vice President, Portfolio Strategy for the Worldwide Security business CA Technologies. In this role, he managed the lifecycle of several product lines with responsibility for innovative new development and strategic acquisitions.

Andrew Cook is the Manager of Delta Risk’s ActiveResponse service. In his capacity as Manager, Andrew is responsible for the firm’s solutions to discover, investigate, contain and eradicate incidents and intrusions on customer networks.

In addition, he provides defensive and offensive cybersecurity training and exercises to commercial and government clients. Drawing from his Air Force background, he is one of the firm’s leading subject matter experts in cyber threat hunting and incident response.

I bring 25 years of insurance coverage litigation experience on behalf of insurers and policyholders to my insurance consulting work. I have a particular expertise in cyber insurance and coverage under various policy forms for today’s emerging risks.

I provide coverage evaluation, policy negotiation, and gap analysis services to companies across multiple industries, helping them to make the most of their insurance premium dollars. I also provide expert witness services to both policyholders and insurance companies in coverage disputes.

Ahmed Shaaban is a founding member of Fulcrum Global Technologies and leads the team in strategic business development activities. Through his leadership, Fulcrum became a recognized market leader in commercial enterprise and cloud solutions serving the mainstream supply chain of Fortune 500 companies for global legal and professional services firms. His organization’s solutions helped pioneer the development of several of today’s most strategic enterprise innovations in industry-specific rapid deployment solutions using in-memory computing, mobile analytics, internet commerce models designed to develop and leverage brands, high speed imaging, security and encryption for enterprise markets and electronic payments in the cloud.

Mr. Shaaban is a major contributor to the development of Chicago’s incubation environment for high technology companies in the New Millennium. He completed his B.S. in Biomedical Engineering at Boston University and his MBA at Loyola University of Chicago. He has numerous board appointments.

Randy Clay is the Head of IT Security and Risk Management for Seyfarth Shaw LLP. In this role Randy is responsible for establishing and maintaining the Firm’s cyber security vision, strategy, and program to ensure information assets and technologies are adequately protected.

Randy has over 20 years of IT experience in a variety of industries including pharmaceuticals, retail, and financial services. This includes a diverse background in Information Security and Risk, with senior roles in Supplier Risk Management, Technology Risk and Controls Manager and Business Information Security Officer. In the security discipline he is a certified CISSP, CISA, and CIPP.

Scott Angelo is the Chief Information Officer for Fragomen Worldwide, an AMLAW 100 firm, and is responsible for the management and security of a global technology platform and case management system that spans six (6) continents. With over 30 years of experience in a variety of industries globally, Scott previously served as Chief Information Officer at K&L Gates, LLP, Corporate VP and Chief Information Officer for Diebold, Inc., (where he formerly served as VP and Chief Security Officer).

Scott has held other senior technology and security management positions with Ernst & Young LLP, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Special Projects Office.

Jennifer Roscetti is a partner in Finnegan’s Washington, DC office. She practices patent litigation before U.S. district courts and the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC). She also represents clients before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Her practice encompasses a range of technologies primarily focused on chemical subject matter such as pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and specialty chemicals. Prior to her legal career, she worked as process design engineer for ExxonMobil Chemical Company and as a process engineer for E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company in the Teflon® division. Jennifer also engaged in research on anti-cancer drugs in the College of Pharmacy at the University of Kentucky.

Jennifer regularly lectures in the United States and abroad concerning potential challenges and opportunities for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries in navigating recent developments in U.S. patent law. She serves as an adjunct professor in Patent Law and Advanced Topics in Patent Policy at Howard University of Law.

Jennifer serves on Finnegan’s Management and Compensation Committees.

Ruth Hauswirth joined Cooley in 1995 and is Special Counsel in the Firm’s Litigation Department. She currently oversees Cooley’s Litigation and Electronic Discovery Services practice and department. Ruth developed and oversees Cooley’s electronic discovery practice and resources and focuses on the strategic use of legal and technology solutions to handle electronically stored information in complex litigation matters, including information retention, preservation, collection, review and production in compliance with a variety of regulatory and jurisdictional areas. She serves on the firm’s Risk Management Committee where she is involved in creating and implementing risk management policies, training and compliance programs for Cooley. She is also an adjunct faculty member at the University of San Diego School of Law teaching Electronic Discovery Law. She is a member of the State Bar of California and received a J.D. summa cum laude in 1994 from the Santa Clara University School of Law. From 1999-2000, Ms. Hauswirth served as the Assistant Dean for Law and Technology at Santa Clara University School of Law and in 2000, she was named one of the Bay Area’s Top Lawyers under Forty by the San Francisco Daily Journal.

Dan Meyers is the President of TransPerfect Legal Solutions’ Information Governance division. Dan advises clients on e-discovery best practices and motion practice, litigation readiness plans, defensible data disposition programs, and data privacy concerns, with a particular emphasis on cross-border data transfers. His clients range from financial institutions and multinational corporations to start-ups and small-to-medium businesses. Dan is certified as an E-Discovery Specialist (ACEDS) and an Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US).

Prior to joining TLS, Dan was a Commercial Litigation Partner at an Am Law 100 law firm and the Founder and Chair of the firm’s E-Discovery & Information Governance practice group. Dan’s commercial litigation practice covered a wide range of complex business disputes before federal and state courts, including cross-border, corporate governance, bankruptcy, securities, breach of contract, and business tort cases.

Brett Tarr serves as Counsel, Litigation & E-Discovery for Caesars Entertainment and leads the e-discovery, information governance, and privacy functions for the organization. He has spent the last 15 years working exclusively in the areas of electronic discovery and information governance, and joined the law department at Caesars Entertainment in 2012 to build develop in-house capabilities and defensible workflows for e-discovery, information governance, legal operations, and data privacy.

Mr. Tarr has experience working in a full spectrum of legal roles, including litigating at national law firms, developing programs for e-discovery providers, and serving in-house legal roles for several companies. Mr. Tarr has also provided consulting services, developed marketing programs, and authored articles on related topics for many leading organizations in this field. Mr. Tarr participates in numerous industry workgroups including EDRM, ACC, AIIM, and Sedona Conference, as well as publishing content for ILTA, the Association of Corporate Counsel, and other national publications. He has authored numerous articles and conducted continuing legal education courses over the past 10 years on a range of topics including electronic discovery, computer forensics, legal analytics, information governance, data privacy, data security, and development of defensible processes.

Joseph Pochron is digital forensics examiner and high-technology investigator with more than 13 years of experience. He is a retired Detective, serving as the commanding officer of the Lehigh County,PA District Attorney’s Office (LCDA) Computer Crimes Task Force & Digital Forensic Laboratory. Currently, Joseph serves as a Director in the Forensic Technology and Consulting Division of Transperfect Legal Solutions where he oversees forensic teams in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Chicago.

Andrew Arruda is a Canadian entrepreneur and lawyer. He is Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of the artificial intelligence company ROSS Intelligence, a leader in the legal technology industry. Arruda speaks internationally on the subjects of AI, legal technology, and entrepreneurship and has been featured in publications such as The New York Times, BBC, Wired, CNBC, CBS,Bloomberg, Fortune, Inc., Forbes, TechCrunch, the Washington Post, and the Financial Times.

A member of the Forbes 30 under 30 class of 2017, as well as a 2016 TED speaker, Arruda aims to forever change the way legal services are delivered. Prior to cofounding ROSS Intelligence, Arruda worked at a Toronto litigation boutique and with the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development in Lisbon, Portugal.

Michael Quartararo is the Director of Litigation Support Services at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP, and the author of the 2016 book Project Management in Electronic Discovery, published by eDiscoveryPM.com. With 20+ years of experience in the legal services industry, he is responsible at Stroock for the development and implementation of Firm policy related to e-discovery and litigation support services.

He leads a staff providing consultative project management support services to 300 attorneys and paralegals and the Firm’s Fortune 500 clients on the use of technology, electronic discovery, and information governance. He also teaches e-discovery and project management and sits on the advisory board at Bryan University in Tempe, Arizona. A graduate of the State University of New York, he also studied law in the UK. He is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and a Certified E-Discovery Specialist (CEDS).

He sits on the national Advisory Board of the Association of Certified E-Discovery Specialists (ACEDS) and is the liaison member to the Duke-EDRM Advisory Committee. Mike frequently writes and speaks on project management, e-discovery and litigation support issues. He can be reached at mquartararo@stroock.com.

Richard T. Jacobs is the assistant special agent in-charge of the Cyber Branch in the FBI’s New York office. The branch investigates national security and criminal cyber matters and responds to cyber incidents in the New York metropolitan area.

In 2014, Mr. Jacobs helped establish the Financial Cyber Crimes Task Force, a multi-agency initiative targeting cyber crime and technology-based fraud schemes. Following graduation from the FBI Academy in 1999, Mr. Jacobs was assigned to New York where he investigated a variety of securities fraud matters. From 2002 to 2005 he played the role of a corrupt stock broker in a market manipulation undercover operation which resulted in the conviction of 49 individuals. In June 2010, he was selected to lead a Manhattan-based securities fraud unit which handled the Bernard L. Madoff and the Galleon Group insider trading investigations. He was named assistant special agent in-charge in October 2014.

Prior to joining the FBI, Mr. Jacobs was a risk manager on Wall Street. He holds a Master of Business Administration degree with a concentration in finance and international business and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional.

As Chief Executive Officer of Darktrace, Nicole Eagan has positioned the company as an international leader in cyber defense. Nicole was named ‘Woman of the Year’ at the 2016 Cyber Security Awards for successfully introducing disruptive machine learning technology to the global market. Her extensive career as a technology executive includes over 25 years of commercial and marketing experience.

An expert in developing and executing strategies for high-growth businesses, Nicole helped Darktrace secure $75 million in Series D funding from Insight Venture Partners, KKR, and Summit Partners and led the company to $230 million in contract value. Under her leadership, Darktrace’s
innovative approach to cyber security has won over 80 awards, including World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA and Cambridge, England and now has more than 600 employees working across 24 countries.

As Stroock’s Chief Information Officer, Kermit brings over 25 years of private and public sector experience in strategy, operations and project management to all areas of the Firm’s Information Technology, Information Security, Practice Support and Library departments in 4 national offices.

Prior to joining Stroock, Kermit served in technical, management and leadership positions at a top AMLAW 100 firm in New York, 2 software companies, a major financial services firm, and the NYC Public schools.

Jonathan is a consultant at Driven, Inc. Prior to joining Driven, Jonathan was a litigation associate at Hughes, Hubbard & Reed LLP with over 10 years experience that included substantial eDiscovery experience that included managing large discovery projects, analysis of enterprise systems, and investigations into nontraditional data sources. Through his experience as a litigator and programmer, Jonathan primarily focused on creative problem solving with regard to all types of data. He analyzed and produced complex enterprise systems and developed internal workflows for large litigations. His experience also includes developing cost saving legal processes, managing legal budgets, and supervising legal personnel. Prior to becoming a lawyer, Jonathan was a programmer during the first Internet boom.

Jonathan is admitted to the bars of New York and Connecticut. He holds a J.D. from the Cardozo School of Law and an MPS from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts Interactive Telecommunications Program, where he studied rapid prototyping and software development. Jonathan also serves as the Director of Legal Strategy at the Corporate Knowledge Strategies Forum.

Tara Emory advises organizations and law firms on e-Discovery and information governance programs. Tara counsels clients on data management and compliance, policies, records management technology, and defensible deletion. In litigation, she is an expert on search methodologies, data preservation and collection approaches, discovery protocols, and strategies for resolving discovery issues with litigation adversaries, government regulators, and the courts. Above all, Tara seeks to solve her clients’ unique data problems in ways that reflect a best fit for each client and matter.

Tara is a lawyer, certified Project Management Professional, experienced participant in e-Discovery advisory groups, and a frequent speaker at law firms, corporate legal departments, and eDiscovery and information governance conferences. She actively participates in The Sedona Conference where she has led drafting projects for Working Group 1. Tara also serves as an advisory panel member for the Legal Technology Professionals Institute, a member of Duke TAR Guidelines Drafting Committee, and as a member of the Board of Directors for Advocates for Justice and Education.

She is an expert on technology-assisted review (TAR), including different algorithms, workflows, and software. She has developed effective TAR processes for dozens of clients that incorporate traditional TAR workflows, TAR 2.0 functionality, and other versions adapted to meet project needs. She has also consulted on and helped design the industry-leading TAR offering provided by a leading document review platform provider.

Before Driven, Tara served as counsel for Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, where she advised clients in antitrust disputes and Second Requests, which included managing large discovery projects. Tara holds J.D. and LL.M. in International and Comparative Law degrees from the Duke University School of Law. She is admitted to the bars of New York and the District of Columbia.

Johnny Lee is a forensic investigator, management consultant, and former attorney, specializing in data analytics, digital forensics, and electronic discovery in support of investigations, data breach response, and litigation. He also provides advisory services to companies working to address complex Cybersecurity, Information Governance, and Data Privacy issues.

Johnny is a frequent speaker, author, panelist, and contributor on issues involving CyberSecurity, Forensic Investigations, eDiscovery, Data Analytics, Information Governance, Records Management, and the effective use (and risk management) of Information Technology. Johnny received his Juris Doctorate from the Georgia State University College of Law and his Bachelor’s degree from Emory University. In 2000, he was admitted to the State Bar of Georgia, where he maintains an active law license.

He has delivered solutions (in both the public and private sector) addressing the effective mitigation of business, compliance, and litigation risk to Law Firms; General Counsel; Boards of Directors; Audit Committees; and Chief Financial, Compliance, Information, and Operations executives. He has led project teams across a variety of industries, including financial services, healthcare, retail, insurance, advanced technology, communications, private equity / venture capital, hospitality, manufacturing, construction, transportation, and legal.

The Honorable Lisa Margaret Smith is a United States Magistrate Judge for the Southern District of New York. She sits in the Charles L. Brieant Federal Building and United States Courthouse in White Plains. She was originally appointed in 1995 and she is currently serving her third term as a Magistrate Judge. From 2006 to 2008 she served as Chief Magistrate Judge for the Southern District.

Judge Smith earned her BA degree, with honors in political science, from Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana in 1977, and her JD degree from Duke University School of Law in Durham, North Carolina in 1980. She is a member of the Boards of Editors of the Federal Courts Law Review, an on-line and print journal of the Federal Magistrate Judges Association, and of the Federal Bar Council Quarterly. Judge Smith has served in various positions on the Board of the Westchester Women’s Bar Association, and is currently serving as a Vice President. She is active in the Federal Magistrate Judges Association, the Federal Bar Council, the Federal Bar Association, and JALBCA. In 2014 Judge Smith was honored to receive the Judith S. Kaye Access to Justice Award from the Women’s Bar Association of the State of New York. In January of 2018 she will receive the Kay Crawford Murray award from the New York State Bar Association’s Committee on Women in the Law.

Judge Smith has been an Adjunct Professor at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University (formerly Pace Law School) since 2006, where she has taught Evidence and Federal Courts, and where she has co-taught Civil Procedure with Professor Michael B. Mushlin. She lectures frequently on Evidence and E-discovery, among other topics.

James C. Francis IV is a Distinguished Lecturer at the CUNY School of Law where, among other things, he teaches Electronic Discovery. From 1985 until 2017 he served as a United States Magistrate Judge in the Southern District of New York. Judge Francis received his B.A. from Yale College in 1974, his juris doctor degree from the Yale Law School in 1978, and a masters degree in public policy from Harvard University, also in 1978. Following graduation from law school, he clerked for the Honorable Robert L. Carter in the Southern District of New York. He then joined the Civil Appeals and Law Reform Unit of the Legal Aid Society where he conducted impact litigation in the areas of housing and education and served as director of the Disability Rights Unit. For more than a decade, Judge Francis taught Constitutional Torts as an Adjunct Professor at the Fordham University School of Law.

Philip Favro acts as a trusted advisor to organizations and law firms on important questions surrounding discovery and information governance. Phil provides guidance on litigation hold policies, data collection strategies, and search methodologies. He also offers direction to organizations on records retention policies and the need to manage dynamic sources of information found on smartphones, cloud applications, and social networks.

Phil is a thought leader and a legal scholar on issues relating to the discovery process, the confluence of litigation and technology, and information governance. His articles have been published in leading industry publications and academic journals and he is frequently in demand as a speaker for eDiscovery education programs.

Phil is a member of the California and Utah bars. He actively contributes to Working Group 1 of The Sedona Conference where he serves as the Project Manager for the Steering Committee. Phil also serves as the Director of Legal Education for the Coalition of Technology Resources for Lawyers (CTRL). Prior to joining Driven, Phil practiced law in Northern California where he advised a variety of clients regarding business disputes and complex discovery issues. He also served as a Judge Pro Tempore for the Santa Clara County Superior Court based in Santa Clara, California.

David is an executive level technology professional whose background includes US and international experience. As CIO, Senior Director and Associate Director of IT, David has firsthand experience guiding business leaders on technology to fit with the strategic business plan of their organization.

David’s experience includes executive level leadership directing in-house, cloud and outsourced IT technologies for US and international firms. He has also worked extensively with architectural firms and general contractors in the US, EMEA and APAC to design data centers and the technology infrastructure for office openings and relocations around the globe.

John Stambelos is the IT Director for a highly distinguished California law firm for the past 15 years, utilizing three decades of law firm and technology experience to provide consistent leadership and top-notch IT services encompassing cybersecurity, risk management, IT policy development, business continuity, remote trial support, disciplined fiscal planning and concierge technology support. He’s been able to enhance law firm revenue by encouraging the charge-back of technology services and directly supporting key client relationships. John’s professional mission is to provide his lawyers and staff with peace-of-mind through reliable IT operations and find new ways to add value using technology to help make client relationships stickier. Prior to joining Munger, Tolles, John led IT teams at several other law firms, including Katten. He holds a B.A. in political science from UCLA.

With over 16 years of combined experience in the information technology and information security field, Quincey Collins (CISSP, CISA, CEH) brings a multi-dimensional perspective with an emphasis on information security operations, security controls assessments, auditing, compliance, vendor risk management, and IT operational risk management. Quincey spent almost 9 years working for the United States Air Force and spent an additional 5 years supporting different commands and agencies within the Department of Defense in Europe.

In his role as the Chief Security Officer for Sheppard Mullin Richter and Hampton LLP, Quincey is responsible for the firm’s information security and risk management strategy. He places a high emphasis on cybersecurity training for employees and specialized training and continuing education for the information security department. Quincey recently led his firm to an ISO 27001 certification.

Quincey holds a B.S. in Cybersecurity, and a M.S. in Information Technology with a specialization in Information Assurance from University of Maryland University College.

Lucy is responsible for the delivery of the Reed Smith’s knowledge, innovation and information strategy. Her role is to deliver access to the relevant information and knowledge required to deliver exceptional client service. Using technology and project management to deliver legal service efficiently is a key focus of the firm’s Practice Innovation team, which Lucy’s leads. The firm has also invested in an Innovation programme to harness the ideas and creativity of the firm’s community. Lucy and her team also identify opportunities for the firm to share its collective knowledge with clients to help them deliver their own strategic goals.

Lucy was a commercial litigator by training, and practiced at Linklaters before moving to a knowledge management role, both there and at Berwin Leighton Paisner. She joined Reed Smith in 2015 as the Global Chief Knowledge Officer. She is a regular speaker at KM conferences in the UK and the US and contributes to legal management journals.

Nick is Chief Revenue Officer at Workshare holding responsibility for sales & marketing strategy and driving the development of the firms latest innovation in Risk Analytics & Data Loss Prevention. A serial entrepreneur, who prior to joining Workshare developed a leading cloud-based Human Capital Management platform acquired by Ceridian in 2007. Subsequently, he went on to work with the UK Government advising high-growth tech businesses, as part of their Growth Accelerator program.

Barb Kunkel is the Chief Information Officer, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP. For over two decades, Barb believes that technology administration involves more than maintaining stable and efficient systems. It involves leveraging intellectual capital for the benefit of clients. It involves collaboration and team building – people, as well as client work product development.

Responsible for both technology and information services, Barb oversees technology,practice group systems, information security, research services, and knowledge management throughout the firm’s 9 worldwide offices. She also leads the development of an end-state architecture that enables Davis Wright Tremaine to deliver world-class and unique client based solutions by connecting business goals to a cohesive technology platform.

Barb’s dedication to team building, mentoring, and community development extends beyond the walls of the firm. She is a contributing author to the book Climb: Leading women in technology share their journeys to success, and she currently serves on the board of TechBridge, an organization that brings affordable technology and business expertise to nonprofits.

Andy Morris is the Global Head of IT Solutions at Hogan Lovells. His primary responsibility is the introduction of new technology into the firm. He has direct responsibility for the annual portfolio of technology projects and provides leadership to a global team that includes Business Relationship Management, Business Analysis, Planning and Programs, Applications and Engineering, Analytics and Reporting and Quality Assurance. After spending a decade as a consultant at Accenture, Andy immersed himself in the legal world and has spent the subsequent years helping law firms align their growth strategies with the right IT portfolio. He is also actively engaged as program manager for Innovation and New Ventures initiatives led by the firm’s Innovation Partner. The initiatives under this program are focused on incubation of a portfolio of new revenue generating ventures and facilitating the growth of entrepreneurship throughout the firm.

Brent E. Kidwell is the Firm’s Chief Information Security Officer. Mr. Kidwell manages the firm’s information security and governance program, working with clients and others to implement robust strategies and controls designed to protect client and firm data. In addition, Mr. Kidwell leverages years of experience as a commercial litigator to help clients proactively prepare for electronic discovery and reactively implement strategies and plans for collecting, processing, analyzing and producing data in litigation. Mr. Kidwell has assisted clients in managing terabytes of data efficiently and cost-effectively for some of the Firm’s largest matters. He also advises clients on digital forensics, information and records management strategies, and data security, protection and privacy issues. In addition to his work for clients, Mr. Kidwell is responsible for the Firm’s data security and information technology risk management activities, as well as its knowledge management efforts.

Doug Caddell is Global CIO for Mayer Brown LLP. Prior to leading Mayer Brown’s technology efforts, he was CIO of Foley & Lardner LLP for 13 years. During his tenure Foley was been honored eight of eleven years by CIO magazine as one of the CIO-100, and by InformationWeek magazine as a top technology innovator and one of the InformationWeek for six years.

Mr. Caddell is a veteran law firm technology director and internationally recognized speaker and writer on legal technology. He has over 30 years experience in finance, operations and management and in leading the technology efforts of a variety of organizations, including mid-sized and large law firms and a governmental law department. Mr. Caddell has a degree in management information systems, and accounting from the University of Arizona. He has held professional certifications as a CPA and certified information systems auditor. He is currently a CISSP and an IGP. In 2004 he was honored as IT Director of the Year by New York based Law Technology News and in January 2009, he was further honored by Legal Technology Awards in London as International IT Director of the Year. He was a long time member of the editorial advisory board of Law Technology News and in 2009 co-authored the book Achieving Excellence in Legal Technology Management, published by Thomson Reuters/West.

Peter focuses on the art and science of product design, with an emphasis on machine learning and expert systems. Peter spends time designing and advising on solutions to drive document management system engagement. He tries to help busy people “keep found things found.”

Responsible for product strategy, he connects product management and industry trends to address customer product goals. Peter is a legal industry veteran. He previously held leadership positions at management and technology consulting companies, including Duff & Phelps, HBR Consulting and PWC. Peter travels frequently and especially enjoys supporting Division I water polo, where his two daughters play.

Professional Focus: Increase adoption of document management systems and content control systems using analytics, visualizations and machine learning.Create software applications involving document workflows for regulated industries or professional services firms. Establish technology strategy or solution road maps for law firms and corporate legal departments. This frequently includes data-driven current-state modeling using dashboards or unstructured data collection using machine learning tools.

Bryn Bowen is the Director of Information Services at Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP, a law firm based in New York City, where he is establishing an Information Governance (“IG”) program in addition to overseeing the New Business Intake, Conflicts/Risk, Records, Research Services and Knowledge areas.

Bryn is the Immediate Past President of the ARMA Metro NYC chapter, was formerly Principal Consultant at Greenheart Consulting Partners, a boutique Governance Risk & Compliance consulting practice, and before that was Director of Legal Systems and Information Management at Greenberg Traurig LLP where he established a global information governance and records management program and reengineered the NBI Conflicts and Risk program.

Pat Gillette is one of the country’s leading experts and most sought-after speakers on gender diversity and equality. Rated as a top employment litigator and trial lawyer by Chambers and other organizations for 40 years and as a leader and rainmaker in her firms, Ms. Gillette’s legal career focused on assisting Fortune 500 companies with their most difficult issues and challenges. At the end of 2015, she resigned from her firm to pursue her passion for empowering women through keynote speaking and writing. She was also invited to join JAMS in San Francisco and she now spends some of her time mediating employment cases.

Ms. Gillette’s newly published book, “Rainmakers: Born or Bred” is filled with practical tactics and strategies that can be easily implemented to enhance business development skills and expand books of business. In the book, Ms. Gillette highlights the nationally acclaimed Rainmaker Study and includes helpful tips from rainmakers and clients across the country. Using the research studies Ms. Gillette commissioned, her own experiences, and her charismatic style, Rainmakers: Born or Bred inspires attorneys to think differently about how they can realize their personal and business goals.

Ms. Gillette has been recognized for work to advance women in the profession in many forums and has received several awards including the ABA Golden Hammer Award, the California Women Lawyers Association’s Fay Stender Award, the Transformational Leadership Award as one of the Top Women Rainmakers, and the Barristers Association of San Francisco Award of Merit.

Ms. Gillette is the co-founder of the Opt-In Project, a nationwide initiative focused on changing the structure of law firms to increase the retention and advancement of women. Ms. Gillette has been a Commissioner on the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession, a member of ABA’s Gender Equity Task Force, Co-Chair of the BASF No Glass Ceiling Initiative, and she serves on several non-profit boards dedicated to protecting and promoting women, including Equal Rights Advocates and DirectWomen,

Ms. Gillette is the proud mother of two successful and enlightened sons and lives in Kensington, California with her husband of 40+ years. She has served as an elected official of her town and is active in political and community organizations and activities.

Nicholas Jelfs-Jelf is a consultant with Volta Talent Strategies who advises law firms on what matters to them most: their people. Through his consulting on the recruitment, professional development and retention of their lawyers, he helps law firms develop more efficient, effective and elegant ways to achieve their business goals. He has played a lead role in conceiving and implementing a wide range of initiatives and projects in the areas of HR, knowledge management, risk management and practice development within the law firm environment.

A former M&A lawyer, law firm partner and C-level executive, Nicholas has extensive trans-Atlantic experience in the legal services industry, having worked in senior law firm management roles in the US, UK and Asia. His consulting practice focuses on developing an integrated talent management approach, designed around the life cycle of an attorney at the firm.

As an executive coach, Nicholas works with individuals to optimize their performance with a focus on leadership and people management. He has coached and advised partners, associates and C-level law firm executives and is certified by the Behavioral Coaching Institute as a master coach.

Mr. Horn is presently Vice President, Associate General Counsel & Deputy Director of eDiscovery at AIG where he is responsible for a range of eDiscovery matters. Before assuming that position he was Senior Litigation Counsel with Tyco International and was responsible for a large toxic tort and insurance recovery docket.

Prior to that he served for eight years as Assistant General Counsel at Altria Corporate Services where, among other things, he managed Altria’s defense in the multi-billion dollar RICO lawsuit by the Department of Justice against the major U.S. cigarette companies. At Scott Paper, he managed the company’s defense in breast implant class action litigation and navigated its related insurance issues. His litigation training began at the Pepper Hamilton firm where he gained first chair trial experience and worked primarily on insurance and antitrust cases. Because of this extensive litigation background, Mr. Horn keeps current on a range of related issues, especially the evolving law of eDiscovery. In that regard he is a member of SedonaWorking Group One and is a member of the Educational AdvisoryBoard to ALM’s LegalTech.

Mr. Horn is a frequent speaker oneDiscovery issues. In addition to the extensive litigation experience, Mr. Horn has substantial of transactional experience in that he was procurement counsel for Scott Paper and managed acquisitions and divestitures at UnitedAuto Group which was the first publicly traded organization of car dealerships.

Merrill has been working in marketing, communications, and business development for her entire career. From small technology start-ups to multi-national corporations, she has worked with lawyers, scientists, and engineers across the country to find new markets and expand their businesses. Recently, she has been working as an independent consultant, helping small and growing firms and companies find their voice and tell their stories, without destroying their budgets. A published author since she was nine, and currently an active podcaster, she loves to coach her clients on the power of storytelling to differentiate themselves in crowded and clamorous markets. No one loves a sales pitch – everyone loves a good story.

Rich began his legal marketing career in 1999 at Day, Berry & Howard (now Day Pitney) as a consultant in charge of digital marketing, and was soon brought aboard full-time as Marketing Manager. After spending nine years in Ohio in marketing and business development roles at two AMLAW 250 firms, he returned to Connecticut, where he most recently fulfilled the role of Business Development and Marketing Director at an insurance policyholder defense firm. A published author with a background in strategy, copywriting, design, and editing, he enjoys developing and executing solutions for entrepreneurial firms that want to attain the next level in revenue and reputation.

Catie is a seasoned attorney and business professional with extensive experience leading best-in-practice legal and contracts and commercial management teams in technology-driven companies. For more than two decades, she has enabled global sales organizations to achieve efficiencies throughout all phases of large and small business transactions.

Currently, Catie serves as the global operations executive for UnitedLex client, DXC Technology (DXC), where she guides the day-to-day direction of DXC’s legal department operations and strategy in collaboration with the company’s legal leadership team. She provides senior level coordination and issue resolution in areas including transactions, litigation, immigration, and legal operations with a focus on using technology and process optimization to deliver high quality legal services within desired cost targets. She currently oversees more than 170 transactions legal and commercial professionals.

Catie received her B.A. from Ohio Wesleyan University and her J.D. from Suffolk Law School, and is admitted to practice in New Hampshire. In addition to being an avid speaker, Catie was selected to participate in the Next Women 50 program in 2017 and was named a 2011 national fellow with the Leadership Council for Legal Diversity. She is a member of the International Association of Commercial Contract Management, Association of Corporate Counsel, and American Bar Association.

Michael Rynowecer, as President and Founder of The BTI Consulting Group, looks at every angle of the professional services relationship, starting with the client perspective, to drive growth. This fascination has driven him to direct, conduct and analyze more than 14,000 one-on-one interviews with C-level executives to define their expectations, needs, priorities, preferences, hiring decisions and opinions of the professionals with whom they work. From this research BTI identified the 17 activities statistically proven to drive superior client relationships. BTI conducts more independent research on how clients acquire, manage, and evaluate their professional services providers than virtually anyone.

Michael draws on this research and his 35 years of experience to provide high-impact client feedback, brand preference and perception, business development counsel and strategic consulting to organizations who want to improve performance and drive growth. Michael has advised virtually every market leader in the professional services world and his clients include 6 of the Fortune 10 as well as more than 200 professional services firms across the globe.

Michael is President and Founder of The BTI Consulting Group, which is currently celebrating its 25th year of helping clients use compelling research for compelling results. Michael is a fixture in the business press, commenting on markets and strategies for professional services firms.

Michael has authored more than 40 publications on all aspects of client relationships, client service, client feedback, client satisfaction, business development and business strategy. Michael blogs as The Mad Clientist.

As a practicing attorney and technologist, Dan recognized that legal service delivery was ripe for innovation. Melding his passion for the legal space with his diverse background, Dan has overseen UnitedLex’s growth from a handful of employees to a highly-skilled global workforce of 2,000.

Dan began his career 20 years ago with Ernst & Young LLP providing audit and tax advice services to New York City area companies. He then went on to Greenberg Traurig LLP where he represented venture backed and Fortune 500 companies in the technology, financial, healthcare and manufacturing sectors.

Prior to founding UnitedLex, Dan served as Chief Financial Officer and General Counsel to Adjoined Consulting, and then as a Managing Director of Kanbay International. At Adjoined, Dan helped establish the company’s unique brand of financial and legal execution while managing various offshore service provider relationships. Adjoined was acquired by Kanbay International for $240 million in early 2006. Prior to Adjoined, Dan guided SmartDisk Corporation through early stage structuring and execution of its initial public offering. During Dan’s tenure, SmartDisk grew to greater than $1 billion in market cap.

In 2013, Dan was named “Entrepreneur of the Year” in the Technology and Business Services category for the US Midwest Region by Ernst & Young. This honor recognizes his demonstrated excellence and extraordinary success in innovation, performance and personal commitment to the professionals, clients and communities of UnitedLex.

Deborah is Thompson Hine’s firmwide managing partner. In this capacity, she serves as the firm’s chief executive officer. She is also a member of the firm’s Executive Committee, the principal governing body responsible for its strategic direction, financial affairs and the oversight of its seven-office operations. Deborah has served as a member of the firm’s Executive Committee for the past 11 years. She has also served in various management roles at the firm including hiring partner, chair of the 65-lawyer Tax, Benefits and Planning Department and chair of the Lawyer Personnel Committee.

Deborah also spends some of her time as a practicing lawyer in the tax exempt, nonprofit corporate, and health care areas. She functions as outside general counsel to two large exempt organizations. She focuses her tax exempt practice on tax and corporate planning for nonprofit organizations and foundations and health care organizations. Deborah assists clients in the formation of nonprofit entities, qualification of nonprofit entities for tax exempt status, conversions to and from exempt status, corporate reorganizations and liquidations, including reorganizations of exempt organizations, hospitals, and other health care providers, arrangements between for-profit and tax exempt entities, Internal Revenue Service Ruling requests, unrelated business income, lobbying, and political contribution tax compliance, structuring of for-profit corporate sponsorship arrangements, tax reviews, and tax controversy work including Internal Revenue Service audits, appeals, and tax litigation. She advises organizations on nonprofit corporate law issues and nonprofit Boards on fiduciary duty issues. She counsels nonprofit organizations on best practices for corporate governance, including the application of Sarbanes-Oxley concepts to nonprofit organizations. She advises private corporate foundations about permissible charitable programs they may operate to advance charitable objectives for the employees of their corporate sponsors, including programs involving an international workforce. Deborah counsels hospitals, physician groups and health care providers on contractual relationships, corporate planning, acquisitions and legal structures for affiliations, ventures and other business arrangements, including compliance with Medicare/Medicaid anti-kickback and physician self-referral rules.

Aaron Kotok serves as managing director of AdvanceLaw, where he engages with nearly 200 general counsel from large organizations who are looking to transform how they identify, select, evaluate, and incent outside counsel. Immediately prior to joining AdvanceLaw, Aaron led the CEB Leadership Council for Legal Executives, where he was responsible for strategy, business and people management, operations, and product development. Aaron was also a member of the company’s Advisory Leadership Group, helping to shape firm-wide policy. A frequent speaker at industry events and general counsel conferences, Aaron has also presented at, or facilitated, several dozen in-house legal teams’ strategy retreats.

Aaron began his legal career with Venable LLP in Washington, DC, as an attorney in the real estate practice, with a focus on borrower-side commercial real estate transactions, including acquisitions, sales, development, and leasing. He also spent time at Gerson Lehrman Group (now GLG) and in several other roles at CEB (now Gartner).

Aaron currently serves as the Vice Chair of the Board of Appeals for the City of Gaithersburg, in Maryland. He received his J.D. from Harvard Law School, and his B.A., summa cum laude, in International Relations and American History, from the University of Pennsylvania.

Al Giles is Axiom’s Global Head of Commercial and is responsible for overseeing the development of all regional offices across the US, Europe and Asia. His main focus is on bringing operational excellence and rigor to the global Talent Platform business and M&A and Regulatory Response solutions. Prior to this role, Alfounded Axiom’s first European office in London in 2007, successfully growing Axiom’s UK offering to over 150 lawyers in just 6 years. Before joining Axiom, Al was an attorney at Linklaters in London. Al received his undergraduate degree from Bristol University, law degree at the College of Law in London, and MBA from INSEAD.

Anthony Crowell is Dean and President of New York Law School and a Professor of Law. He teaches state and local government law. Since becoming dean in 2012, he has led efforts to initiate bold and innovative changes at the Law School. This includes reintroducing NYLS as New York’s law school; issuing and implementing the School’s first comprehensive Strategic Plan, and first Institutional Diversity and Inclusion Plan; adopting a new curriculum; and, vastly expanding clinical and experiential learning programs, all focused on driving student outcomes and leveraging New York City as our classroom. As part of the process, NYLS has understood its role in educating and training new lawyers to meet the broad demands of a changing profession, as well as the many new opportunities for lawyers presented by New York’s diverse economy, which is the onramp to the global economy. Before becoming dean, he was an adjunct professor at NYLS for nine years, while serving full time as Counselor to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Dean Crowell is a member of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce’s Executive Committee; the Board of Trustees of the Brooklyn Public Library (serving on the Executive Committee and former Chair of the Board); the New York City Conflicts of Interest Board; and the Board of Directors of Citizens Union. He received a B.A., magna cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania, and a J.D., cum laude, from American University.

A member of the executive management team of this leading international law firm, Gillian is responsible for all marketing and business development activities across the firm. With a team of 40 professional staff around the world Gillian oversees top line revenue development through initiatives and projects focused on client and account growth.

Nick Austin’s work primarily focuses on providing expert counsel to major Fortune 100 businesses. He recently joined Wells Fargo as senior counsel, where he serves as the second in command of the newly-created Resolution and Recovery Planning legal team.

Nick worked as Mergers and Acquisitions and Venture Capital Counsel at Caterpillar, where he advised senior company executives on legal matters pertaining to M&A and Caterpillar’s venture capital and joint venture projects. Nick helped establish Caterpillar’s first corporate venture capital initiative, and served as General Counsel of Caterpillar’s Toronto based tunneling business, Caterpillar Tunneling Canada Corporation, where he led legal operations for the entity.

As an associate at the Washington, DC offices of Foley & Lardner, LLP, Nick handled M&A and Business Transactions where he advised clients on mergers and acquisitions, commercial contracts, securities and energy related matters. While at Foley, Nick served two secondments as in-house counsel for Cummins Inc. and Sunoco.
Nick is a member of the Board of Trustees for the The Black Student Fund, and he serves as the Treasurer of the Young Lawyers Division of the Washington Bar Association.

Nick earned his JD from Georgetown University Law Center where he competed on the Moot Court team and also served as BLSA President. Nick is a Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Morehouse College where he served as Editor-In-Chief of the student newspaper, The Maroon Tiger. An aggressive entrepreneur and proud DC native, Nick also owns several DC-area based businesses and properties.

Genhi Givings Bailey is the Director of Diversity and Inclusion, at DLA Piper LLP (US). She is responsible for leading the firm’s efforts to recruit, retain, develop and advance diverse lawyers. Genhi works closely with firm leadership as well as Recruiting, Human Resources, Professional Development and Marketing to develop and implement programs designed to increase diversity within the firm and to promote a culture of inclusion. This includes developing and implementing initiatives that address issues such as work-life integration, the promotion and development of diverse lawyers, leadership and advancement opportunities, unconscious bias, emotional intelligence and unique barriers to success faced by certain groups. She also leads the firm’s strategy on diversity pipeline development and implements several initiatives focused on encouraging students from underrepresented groups to pursue legal careers. Genhi appears regularly as a speaker on the topic of diversity and inclusion.

Bassuk holds dual citizenship (Argentina), speaks Spanish and has lived in Buenos Aires, Tel Aviv, Boulder and Honolulu. She sits on various advisory committees including Boston based MINDS Foundation, and is the President of the University of Chicago Latino Alumni Board. In her spare time she enjoys mentoring up and coming Latino, African American, and Asian American professionals.

Miranda is a board certified civil trial lawyer and has tried over 50 cases including bench and jury trials. She has defended a wide range of matters, including professional and legal malpractice claims, personal injury cases, premises liability, commercial and business disputes, product liability, franchisee/franchisor cases and complex fraud matters at the state and federal levels. Miranda was appointed by The Florida Bar to serve a three-year term on an Eleventh Judicial Circuit’s Grievance Committee and regularly investigates alleged violations of the rules professional conduct and responsibility. Miranda is special trial counsel for Altria in Engle Progeny tobacco litigation as well as other companies in complex commercial and personal injury matters.

Before coming to Shook, Hardy & Bacon, Miranda was a partner and chair of the Fraud and Special Investigations Unit practice group at an international law firm. Miranda served as Lead Counsel for the Miami and Fort Myers offices of Allstate Insurance Company, where she received the company’s highest honor, the Distinguished Performance Award. Miranda has presented national seminars on preparing expert witnesses, trial strategies, product liability, social media and the law, Bad Faith, Reptilian Theory, insurance fraud and advanced mediation strategies. She has provided legal opinions to CNN News and was a felony prosecutor in Miami-Dade County.

Tariq supports Walmart as Senior Director of Legal Operations. His team leads initiatives driving transformation from in-house law firm to legal business unit.

Don Knight is a member of PNC Bank’s Legal Operations group with a focus on technology systems and processes to improve departmental efficiency. Don also works closely with vendors and law firms on various initiatives and is a key member of the Diversity and Inclusion committee within the legal department. He received his B.S. in Psychology from the University of Pittsburgh and holds an MBA and MS- ISM from Duquesne University.

Managing Director of Global Services, Jeff Solomon leads a professional services operation responsible for implementing technology solutions and providing expert consulting services. Jeff is a licensed attorney who brings more than 15 years of experience in the enterprise legal software industry to every client engagement, and has held leadership positions across professional services, technology, and product management organizations.

Mr. Caplan, who joined Goodwin in 2014, serves as the firm’s chief operating officer. As COO, he manages the firm’s business, financial and administrative operations. He serves on Goodwin’s Executive and Management Committees, and focuses on the firm’s growth strategy and execution.

His background includes roles in both corporate and consulting management positions where he has worked with over 30 general counsels in managing data analytics, technology project implementation, law firm relationship management and financial management. In consulting, he focused on managing engagements related to intelligent cost reduction for non-compensation expenses, program management, compliance, risk management and legal spend management. These practice areas focus on building relationships with corporate legal, sourcing and finance departments.

With legal, he focuses on teaching attorneys to use technology solutions to drive optimal return on investment for the business through the use of metrics, reports and trend analysis. Additionally, Mr. Caplan has worked with general counsels, legal CAOs and CIOs to develop reporting metrics and dashboards to focus on key spend areas such as litigation, e-discovery, outside counsel accruals and alternative fee savings.

Mr. Caplan has nearly 10 years of experience in the accounting, financial, investment and consulting businesses and 10 years of corporate legal experience.

David is the Director of Law Firm Management within Accenture’s Legal organization. He has more than 30 years of experience, the last 11 at Accenture working in the areas of Procurement, Vendor Management and Strategic Sourcing in the Professional Services/ Legal market globally. David has brought his extensive experience in dealing with third-parties to bare in the oversight of outside-counsel. This includes vetting the IS Security controls of key law firms. David has degrees in business and engineering and is a registered Professional Engineer.

Zach joined PNC in 2011 and has been managing the Legal Third Party Management team for PNC Legal since 2016. Zach manages the compliance of Enterprise Third Party Management policies and completion of new and ongoing assessments. He also leads legal efforts in coordination of cyber security onsite visits, Supplier Advisory Review Committee presentations, and is the conduit for any new third party project or existing third party project that is up for renewal or going out to bid.

Joshua Gilliland, Esq., is a California attorney and author of the eDiscovery blog Bow Tie Law. Josh is the co-creator of The Legal Geeks with Jessica Mederson. The Legal Geeks has been recognized by the ABA Journal Top Blawg 100 from 2013 to 2017 and was nominated for Best Podcast for the 2015 Geekie Awards. Josh has a passion for the impact of technology on the practice of law. Josh has been a columnist for LitigationWorld, has guest lectured at his alumni McGeorge School of Law, and has been published in American Lawyer Magazine. Josh has presented with Judges, eDiscovery experts, and forensic consultants, on eDiscovery, requesting ESI, the form of production, litigation holds, destruction of evidence, cyber-security, and many other topics.

Josh assists attorneys with discovery strategy, document review, and drafting requests for production. Josh has presented hundreds of eDiscovery seminars and been a panelist at comic conventions on legal issues in pop culture and science fiction.

Julia Brickell is Executive Managing Director and General Counsel of H5. In addition to overseeing the legal affairs of the company, including corporate governance and legal compliance issues, Ms. Brickell advises on corporate strategy. Prior to joining H5, Ms. Brickell was Associate General Counsel of Altria Client Services from 2000 to 2008. She focused on product liability litigation, risk assessment, and electronic data management. From 1998 to 2000, Ms. Brickell served as Vice President and Deputy General Counsel of Philip Morris USA. Prior to joining Philip Morris, Ms. Brickell practiced at Davis, Polk & Wardwell in New York, where she handled antitrust, securities, professional malpractice, and commercial litigation. Ms. Brickell is a frequent lecturer on methods of evaluating and addressing the strategic challenges and risks posed to companies by the explosion of electronically stored information.

She is on the board of Lawyers for Civil Justice and serves on the faculty of Columbia University’s
Executive Master of Science in Technology Management program. Ms. Brickell obtained her B.A. from
Smith College and her J.D. from Columbia University School of Law.

Anthony Davis is a Lecturer-in- Law at the Columbia University School of Law, teaching Professional Responsibility Issues in Business Practice. As an Adjunct Professor of Law, Mr. Davis taught Legal
Profession at Brooklyn Law School for many years. Mr. Davis has served as a member of the New York
City Bar Professional Ethics Committee and is a former Chair of the Professional Development Committee.

Mr. Davis is popular lecturer and panelist, drawing on his many years of teaching experience when speaking to bar associations and law firms throughout the United States on all aspects of professional responsibility, the law as it affects lawyers, law practice and risk management.

Brian Kuhn is the Co-Founder and Co-Leader of the Cognitive Legal practice and creator of the IBM Outside Counsel Insights solution. As a former practicing financial services attorney, Brian is responsible for defining and growing the Cognitive Legal brand worldwide. Together with Shawnna Hoffman, Brian is also responsible for defining the intersection of legal artificial intelligence and blockchain for law for IBM.

Brian speaks frequently at legal industry events in North America, Europe and Asia. He has lead over 100 workshops with legal clients to help define where cognitive capabilities intersect with client needs.

Candace McCabe, CIP, is the Expert Information Systems Architect for Information Governance at JB Hunt Transport Services. She is primarily responsible for information risk, compliance, and privacy management. Candace has been with JB Hunt for 17 years in Information and Enterprise Architecture. During this time, she has served in a number of roles including Senior Information Architect, Architecture Technical Lead, and Enterprise Architect. She defined and implemented the Information Lifecycle and Security Governance Program and architected the automation of the program using IBM’s Unified Governance platform. Prior to joining JB Hunt, Candace worked as a consultant in a variety of business and data modeling and analysis roles at clients including Eriksson, AT&T Capital Corporation, and Lucent Technologies. She has worked in industries that include insurance, capital finance, telecom, gaming, publishing, government service delivery, and transportation.

Jonah Paransky is executive vice president and general manager of ELM Solutions. In this role, he is responsible for leading the overall performance and growth strategy of the business unit globally. He brings to the organization nearly 20 years of experience in B2B software general management, product management and marketing, and an intimate understanding of the challenges legal operations professionals face every day. Jonah’s passion for the legal technology industry began when he was at LexisNexis. There he held several senior leadership roles, including Vice President and Managing Director, Product Management of the Business of Law Software Solutions and Managed Technology Services group. Immediately prior to joining Wolters Kluwer, Jonah served as CEO of SkyTouch Technology, provider of the most widely used cloud-based property management system for hotels.

Jonah graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the School of Engineering and Applied Science and a B.A. in Economics from the College of Arts and Sciences. Jonah is actively engaged in community service, serving for more than 10 years on the board of non-profit Camp Young Judaea Texas, based in the Texas hill country.

Nathaniel Huber-Fliflet is a managing director in Navigant’s Disputes and Investigations practice specializing in electronic discovery services and complex data analytics. Based in Washington, D.C., he has ore than 13 years of experience consulting with law firms and corporations in a variety of industries including, financial services, telecom, automotive, oil and gas, pharmaceutical and healthcare. Nathaniel has extensive experience designing and implementing discovery management strategies, using text analytics to solve big data challenges and building custom solutions to address unique client needs.

Dr. Jianping Zhang is a Managing Director in the Washington, DC office of Navigant in the firm’s Global Legal Technology Solutions practice. With more than 25 years of experience in developing analytics products and solutions, Dr. Zhang expands the firm’s analytics services and capabilities that address clients’ complex and evolving data challenges.

Dr. Zhang is one of the world’s foremost experts in artificial intelligence and machine learning with deep experience in predictive analytics, text analytics, advanced data analytics and software development. Prior to joining Navigant, Dr. Zhang helped build the advanced analytics team for Deloitte Financial Advisory Services and led the team in developing innovative analytics products and solutions for financial fraud detection, technology assisted document review and financial advisory applications. He has also led several predictive analytics efforts in developing innovative technologies for financial fraud detection used by the SEC.

Rishi Chhatwal is Assistant Vice President and Senior Legal Counsel at AT&T Services, Inc. focusing on federal regulatory matters and eDiscovery issues. His practice covers all aspects of antitrust investigations and litigation, including counseling as well as data preservation, collection, processing, review and production. Prior to joining AT&T, Rishi was an associate at Sidley Austin LLP in Washington, D.C., representing Antitrust and Telecommunications Regulatory clients in front of federal courts and agencies.

Bénédicte Dambrine is on the Privacy Team at OneTrust. She works closely with the Director of Privacy to handle the internal privacy and security program. She also enables customers to formulate the most efficient and effective response to their regulatory needs, focusing particularly on European privacy regulations. Prior to joining OneTrust, Bénédicte was at the Future of Privacy Forum, a DC based non-profit organization that serves as a catalyst for privacy leadership and scholarship. She also worked at an international law firm in Paris where she advised on data protection and corporate matters. Bénédicte is admitted to the Paris Bar and is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US). She holds her Master in Business Law from Université Paris II Panthéon Assas and an LLM in International Law from DePaul University.

Melisa oversees and manages relationships with several Strategic Clients throughout the United States, partnering with these key clients to provide additional value, support, and enhance their overall client experience. She has expertise in helping clients navigate the entire electronic discovery process related to complex litigation and investigations. Melisa works with clients to develop processes and workflows to create cost-saving strategies in matters involving the collection, processing and review of large amounts of email and other electronic data.

Karen Hornbeck has over 15 years of technical and legal process consulting experience, and specializes in law department technology implementations, Information Governance, Data Privacy, and Information Security solutions for heavily litigated and regulated clients. Her primary focus is on the development of forward-thinking programs to assist clients in identifying their high-value / high-risk information and understanding the related privacy and security considerations.

Lisa Hawke is the Director of Security and Compliance at Everlaw. She leads security and compliance program development, documentation, and implementation, including all aspects of information security and user privacy. Lisa is a certified Certified Compliance and Ethics Professional (CCEP), and is admitted to the bar in New York and Massachusetts. She also volunteers as a Board Member for Women in Security and Privacy.

AJ Shankar is CEO and Co-Founder of Everlaw, an ediscovery technology company based in Berkeley, CA. AJ has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley and an A.B. in Applied Mathematics/Computer Science from Harvard University.

Jonathan is an attorney with twenty-five years’ experience as a litigator, including more than three-and- a-half years as a Deputy Attorney General in the New Jersey Division of Law, prosecuting Consumer and Securities Fraud. Prior to joining Actiance, Jonathan had dual status as eDiscovery Manager and staff attorney in the Law Department and ITS Department respectively of C.R. Bard, Inc., managing the company’s ediscovery needs and EU data privacy requirements. Jonathan earned his B.A. in government from Cornell University, and his J.D. from Rutgers University School of Law – Newark.

Robert leads the Actiance team in working with organizations to more effectively manage regulatory compliance and eDiscovery risks. He brings over 2 decades of Silicon Valley expertise and holds an MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

With the desire to marry her passion for helping others and her love for accounting, Lotasha joined the Anova admin team to do just that. Lotasha is a graduate of Sonoma State University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in Accounting. Lotasha began her public accounting career as an intern at a local accounting firm, Dillwood Burkel & Sully, LLP in 2006. During her time at Dillwood Burkel & Sully, LLP, she quickly climbed the ranks and eventually was promoted to Audit Manager where she was responsible for various aspects of the audit and attestation department including managing staff accountants and preparation of financial statements and tax returns for a multitude of clients. Lotasha has firsthand experience in caring for physically and developmentally disabled children as her niece and sister are disabled. During her downtime, Lotasha loves to spend time with her family or read a good book.

Sonya Smith-Valentine, Esq. is the Founder and President of Financially Fierce, LLC. Sonya oversees her company’s Financial Intelligence Factor programs for corporate clients. She works with clients to develop a strategic approach to address the financial intelligence shortfalls in employees and managers. Prior to founding Financially Fierce, Sonya was the managing attorney of the Valentine Legal Group, LLC where she litigated credit, debt, banking and mortgage disputes, acquiring over half a million dollars in damages for clients. Sonya also serves on the Board of Directors for the Prince George’s Community Federal Credit Union, a financial institution with over $165 million in assets. She previously worked as an accountant for strong financial companies like American Express, Price Waterhouse Coopers and Deloitte & Touché. Sonya received her Juris Doctorate from Brooklyn Law School and earned her Bachelors of Science in Accounting from Villanova University.

Business Development Strategist and veteran attorney Cynthia Sharp (CEO of The Sharper Lawyer) works with motivated lawyers seeking to generate additional revenue for their law firms. The business development strategies and skill sets that she shares were developed and tested over a period of 30 years in practice and are constantly refined to reflect modern marketing techniques. Private and group coaching programs are available. In-house training sessions are also offered.

Cindy, author of The Lawyer’s Guide to Financial Planning published by ABA Solo, Small Firm and General Practice Division, is also a Contributor to the Division’s book How to Capture and Keep Clients: Marketing Strategies for Lawyers as well as Effectively Staffing Your Law Firm. She has delivered close to 200 live presentations over the past 20 years on behalf of the American Bar Association, 10 state bar associations, the Million Dollar Round Table, Professional Services Marketing Association and numerous other legal, financial and professional groups in addition to private seminars conducted for her clients.

During 2017/18, Cindy holds positions on the GP Solo and eReport Boards of the ABA Solo, Small Firm & General Practice Division, having previously served as Chair of the Publications Board of the Division and on the Division’s Council. She completed her term as President of the Philadelphia Chapter of the National Speakers Association in June of 2015 and served as Dean of the Speaker Academy the subsequent year. She is an active member of the Association of Continuing Legal Education, serving on the newsletter committee (“In the Loop”) and co-authors a column focusing on books relevant to the organization’s membership.

Greg Riggs is the former Senior Vice President – General Counsel and Chief Corporate Affairs Officer for Delta Air Lines, Inc. where he served on the executive leadership team and held responsibility for Delta’s worldwide legal affairs. In addition to leading a 40-attorney law department, as Chief Corporate Affairs Officer Greg had oversight responsibility for Delta’s Government Affairs, Public Affairs, and Corporate Communications functions and was designated by the Board of Directors as the company’s Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer. His top-level C-Suite position capped a distinguished 26-year career with Delta which included appointments outside the Legal Division, including chief administrative officer for Airport Customer Service – the company’s largest division with 18,000 employees — where he oversaw finance, contract services, personnel and security and managed a budget of $1.6 billion.

Greg holds an M.A. from Oxford University, a J.D. from Emory Law, a B.A. from UNC-Chapel Hill. He has served on the Boards of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation, and Aviation Accreditation Board International. He has been a featured speaker at the Carter Center, the Conference Board, and Practicing Law Institute programs in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Atlanta, among numerous others. He has been designated by his peers as one of Georgia’s Super Lawyers and has held a Martindale AV-Preeminent rating for 17 consecutive years.

Greg is certified in the Birkman Method, the Hogan Leadership Series of instruments, and EQ-I 2.0.

Jabez LeBret is co-author of the best-selling legal technology book Online Law Practice Strategies. He is an international technology expert who has delivered CLE presentations at the Alaska, Ohio, Florida, Wyoming, New Mexico, Colorado, Washington State, Maryland, and Indiana State Bar Associations, the ABA and LMA, plus over 50 other bar associations. Jabez writes a regular business and technology column for Forbes and is also a contributor to the ABA Journal and NBC Chicago. He is also co-founder of the legal marketing agency GNGF, winner of the 2014 Best Places to Work by the Cincinnati Business Courier and runner-up for Business of the Year by the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce. He loves coffee and is a craft beer enthusiast.

H Bruce (HB) Gordon currently works for Teva Pharmaceuticals located in Horsham, Pennsylvania as their Manager, ESI Response Management overseeing all global eDiscovery, Computer Forensics and internal investigative work in a company of over 50,000 employees. Prior to Teva, HB worked for AmerisourceBergen Corporation as the IT Liaison to the Legal Department, and Rohm and Haas Company as the IT Manager for the Legal Department. Over his 35 year IT career, he has worked in the Computer Manufacturing, Banking, Personal Care Products, Education and Consulting arenas including custom software development. He is a graduate of Northeastern University in Boston, with a degree in Engineering and a major in Computer Science.

Ed Stelzer is Senior Vice President & Associate General Counsel at the Zurich Insurance Group. In that role, he is responsible for a wide array of legal, litigation and regulatory issues around the globe. Prior to Zurich, Ed was associated with the firms of Wachtell Lipton and Milbank where he represented public companies, boards of directors, senior executives, and creditors’ committees. Ed also was head of business development and Acting GC at a high-growth wireless technology company in Silicon Alley.

After graduating summa cum laude from Yeshiva University, Ed received his J.D. with honors from the New York University School of Law where he served as Notes & Comments Editor for the NYU Law Review. Ed also was a law clerk to Justice Stewart Pollock on the New Jersey Supreme Court.

Rachelle Rennagel brings a distinctive blend of legal, business and technology knowledge to her counseling of clients in electronic discovery, information governance, and data privacy and security.

As Special Counsel in Pillsbury’s Litigation practice, Rachelle possesses a deep understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of technology, and has a proven track record of assisting clients in leveraging technology and process to reduce information management and discovery costs and risks.

Matthew Gasaway is the Director and Senior Counsel for eDiscovery and Records Management at AbbVie. In this role, Matt is responsible for designing and implementing AbbVie’s eDiscovery processes, and provides advice to AbbVie’s Legal, Information Technology and Corporate Records groups regarding the company’s eDiscovery and record-keeping practices, both prior to and during litigation.

Matt graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1998, and earned his JD at the University of Iowa School of Law in 2001. After law school, Matt was a trial litigator in Chicago for eight years, initially practicing with the Chicago law firm of Peterson & Ross, and then with the law firm of Chittenden, Murday & Novotny. In 2009, Matt left private practice and became a Senior Counsel for the UnitedLex Corporation, focusing entirely on eDiscovery and Litigation Operations. Matt also works as an adjunct professor at the Northwestern Law School, teaching a course on eDiscovery and Litigation Operations in the Masters of Science and Law program.

Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Texas, Austin, ranked 5th nationally in the field of Artificial Intelligence. Primary research areas include optimization, neural network controllers, evolutionary algorithms, graphical models (RBMs, DBNs), and applied stochastic processes. Thesis entitled “General-Purpose Optimization Through Information Maximization” presented a unified framework for analyzing diverse optimization methods and applied theoretical analysis in order to develop evolutionary annealing, a martingale-based approach to optimization.

Typical project management activities include managing a budget, communicating with clients to elicit requirements, create expectations, and notify of progress, as well as managing the day-to-day activities of development teams ranging in size from 1 to 5 developers. Much of this work has required coordinating with geographically distributed teams through a virtual office space.

Dynamic executive with over thirteen years of experience leading and collaborating with multiple workforces to deliver and manage major consulting initiatives, business process outsourcing engagements and more recently operations focused on litigation. Leads by example; facilitates team success through coaching, developing and motivating individuals.

As e-Discovery legal counsel for Shire Pharmaceuticals, Sara Johnson Meyers oversees all aspects of Shire’s electronic discovery obligations. Prior to joining Shire, Sara was a Senior Discovery Attorney at Ropes & Gray where she advised clients on all facets of large scale e-Discovery, including best practices for collection, review and production and leveraging review technology tools. In addition, she advised clients on document preservation and retention policies, information governance and cross-border discovery issues. Sara has experience in a wide range of substantive areas in a number of different industries, including pharmaceutical pricing, FCPA compliance, antitrust and data privacy and security. Prior to joining Ropes & Gray, Sara was Senior Litigation Counsel at Wang Laboratories, Inc. and KeySpan Energy.

Jason Tyrrell works as an Litigation Support Manager for Sidley Austin LLP at IL, MA. Sidley Austin LLP is a global law firm committed to providing excellent client service, fostering a culture of cooperation and mutual respect, and creating opportunities for lawyers of all backgrounds. With more than 1,700 lawyers in 19 offices around the world, talent and teamwork are central to Sidley’s successful results for clients in all types of legal matters, from complex transactions to “bet the company” litigation to cutting-edge regulatory issues.

Hon. Frank Maas (Ret.) served for 17 years as a United States Magistrate Judge for the Southern District of New York, including a two-year term as Chief Magistrate Judge. Before his appointment to the bench, Judge Maas was a federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York, a partner in the New York City office of a large commercial litigation law firm headquartered in upstate New York, and First Deputy Commissioner of the New York City Department of Investigation. As First Deputy Commissioner, he was responsible for the day-to-day operations of an internal affairs agency and oversaw the City’s internet security efforts. Judge Maas is nationally known for his expertise in electronic discovery issues. He is a frequent speaker at the Conference on Preservation Excellence, E-Discovery Institute Leadership Summit, and other venues.

Judge Maas is a member of the Federal Bar Association S.D.N.Y. Chapter Executive Committee; the Federal Bar Council; the Federal Magistrate Judges Association; the Association of the Bar of the City of New York; and, the New York State Bar Association. He has been a member of the Executive Committee of the New York State Bar Association Commercial and Federal Litigation Section since the founding of the Section.

Judge Maas comes to JAMS with an exemplary reputation as a settlement judge. Comments from Counsel from the Almanac of the Federal Judiciary include: “He is an excellent settlement judge.” “He comes up with creative solutions.” “He is able to recognize what is important. Then he addresses it.”

Trevor is Senior Client Counsel for CS Disco, Inc., a legal technology company based in Houston, Texas. Prior to going in-house, Trevor worked for litigation boutiques as well as AmLaw 50 firms. He represented major multi-national companies in the fields of aviation and aerospace, transportation, energy, insurance, and manufacturing in a wide range of litigation matters, including commercial, intellectual property, product liability, premises, and mass-tort.

Trevor earned his J.D. with honors from the University of Houston Law Center in 1994. Before law school, he was a Captain in the U.S. Air Force, where he served as a T-38 Instructor Pilot and an F-15 Flight Commander.

A 17-year veteran of the legal tech industry, Neil combines a deep understanding of law firms, legal departments, and the legal tech industry with a passion for delivering revolutionary legal technology. Before joining DISCO, Neil was vice president of product marketing for Recommind, where he was responsible for product marketing, strategy, and competitive intelligence across all of Recommind’s product lines, including ediscovery, information governance, and enterprise search.

Constance Mockaitis is the Senior Manager of Information Governance in the Legal Operations Department of AbbVie Inc. Connie works on cross-functional teams that include members of Legal, Records Management, Data Privacy, Information Security and Corporate Policy and IT Technical Delivery Teams to craft Information Governance policy, strategy and procedures. She coordinates the efforts of key stakeholders across the enterprise to ensure critical practices are designed into the way AbbVie manages information.

Connie acts as the primary liaison on IG and eDiscovery matters, communicating with the business on initiatives and projects involving multiple stakeholders. She promotes compliance with IG requirements (e.g. appropriate retention and defensible destruction, privacy and security) and helps formulate strategy and developing plans to increase the value and visibility of information across the organization. Connie is also responsible for identifying, verifying, analyzing, and implementing process improvement and reengineering opportunities for the eDiscovery team. She facilitates the working relationship between Legal IT and members of the Legal Division in refining processes related to AbbVie’s Legal Hold Order Tracking System and AbbVie’s in-house enterprise-wide ESI collection and preprocessing tools.

Her current role also permits her to participate in the daily operation of data collections, processing and governance for all the facets that influence Legal, Privacy and eDiscovery. Her hands-on approach to the development of workflows, mitigation of risk and the management of the processes at the execution level has allowed her to successfully manage, implement and govern the information for a multinational corporation.

Applying his extensive litigation experience and first-hand working relationships with law firms and corporations, attorney Jamie Berry has developed and implemented integrated strategies and solutions for eDiscovery and information management during complex litigation and investigations.

Jamie has provided clients with expertise in all facets of litigation discovery, including proactive corporate litigation readiness programs and episodic litigation and investigation response planning. He has directly managed many large-scale discovery efforts, including many second requests, involving productions to the Federal Communications Commission, Securities and Exchange Commission, and other federal agencies. Jamie has developed critical, well-rounded experience in positions as a litigation support manager within a law firm, a director of client services consulting firm and many different leadership positions at a large litigation support service provider, senior managing consultant at an electronic discovery services consultancy and a Managing Director at multiple electronic discovery services companies.

Emil is co-founder and CEO of ContractRoom, a Contract Management and Agreement-Building platform, recipient of the LegalTech News’ 2016 Innovation Award.

Emil leads ContractRoom’s product and business vision to make the world more agreeable. Since 2012 his team has leveraged design thinking and artificial intelligence to improve the way people agree and business is done.

With over 20 years as an entrepreneur in tech, media and design, he co-founded Megazines Publications and America Riches and held executive positions at the National Basketball Association, and VIX (formerly Batanga Networks). He serves as a board member of Miami Music Project and EndPoverty.org.

Emil earned his degree in Design and Communications from the Istituto Europeo di Design in Milan, Italy.

Gabriel Buigas brings a unique perspective on maximizing the effectiveness and efficiencies of in-house legal departments and in understanding how outside counsel can provide greater value to their corporate clients.

Gabriel joins UnitedLex from Hewlett-Packard Company (“HP”) where he spent almost 19 years and was most recently the SVP & Deputy General Counsel for the PC and Printing business group. Gabriel also served as head of Strategy for the Legal Function at HP from 2009 to 2015 where he worked on a number of transformative initiatives inside the HP legal department. Gabriel focuses on ensuring that UnitedLex is delivering “dial changing” solutions to both legal department and law firm clients. Prior to joining HP, Gabriel worked in the corporate department of Greenberg Traurig, an AmLaw top 10 firm with more than 1,800 lawyers.

Gabriel earned a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a B.B.A. in International Marketing and Finance from the University of Miami.

Mr. LeClair is a co-founder and served for more than 20 years as Chairman (until 2015) and CEO (until 2011) of LeClairRyan. LeClairRyan was founded in 1988 when Mr. LeClair and Dennis Ryan established a securities and venture capital legal boutique to address the special needs of entrepreneurs and venture capitalists. Mr. LeClair now has returned to the full time practice of law. His practice continues to include the representation of middle market and emerging growth companies, as well as private equity and venture capital firms, as securities and general counsel. He has been the lead attorney in hundreds of private and public financings, joint ventures, strategic alliances, mergers and acquisitions, and other major domestic and international transactions.

Mr. LeClair has served on the board of directors and advisors of various business entities, including a bank, an independent trust company, a private equity fund, a venture fund, a residential developer, an ecommerce business and a retailer.

A believer in community involvement, Mr. LeClair has served on the board of directors and advisors of various civic and not-for-profit organizations, including the Richmond Venture Forum, the Greater Richmond Technology Council, the Virginia Council of CEOs, the Greater Richmond Chamber Foundation, The College of William and Mary, The Steward School, Richmond 2007 and Tuckahoe Sports. He has served as General Counsel for the Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce and the Greater Richmond Partnership. A former college football player, he has coached youth baseball, soccer and basketball. He also is a former Head Coach of a Western Wildcats youth football team.

At DXC, Michael is responsible for supporting DXC’s strategic transactions, supply-chain relationships, strategic alliances and partnerships, joint ventures, and intellectual property on a global basis. Michael is also responsible for managing the risk in DXC’s overall portfolio of contracts.

Michael joined DXC from Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld where he was a partner and chair of the firm’s outsourcing and technology practice. Michael is a member of the State Bar of Texas and the Dallas Bar Association. Michael has been recognized by Chambers USA and Chambers Global since 2006 as a leader in the field of outsourcing.

Michael earned an AB from Georgetown University and a JD from the Stanford Law School.

For over 25 years, Nancy Jessen has provided strategic and operational consulting services to the legal industry. Nancy works closely with the General Counsel to develop the vision and structure of the law department to reflect and enable accomplishment of the company’s goals. Her focus also includes operationalizing the vision through a resource plan that balances the use of internal and external resources and the effective deployment of simplified processes and enabling technology. Nancy is known for her depth of knowledge and passion for driving sustainable improvement with her clients.

Nancy is a frequent speaker at industry-wide and sponsored events on topics that inspire and educate the audience on how to set priorities, achieve cost savings, successfully implement new systems, drive user adoption of change and articulate the value contribution of the law department. Nancy received her degree in Management Information Systems from Iowa State University.

Joe Zesski is the Program Manager of the Northeast ADA Center and has served as the New Jersey affiliate of the Northeast ADA through Resources for Independent Living since 2009. He has a Master of Divinity degree from Harvard University and a Bachelors in English Communications from Cabrini University. As Program Manager, Mr. Zesski guides and supports the staff and projects of the Northeast ADA. His personal focus has included assistive technology and its relation to websites, the transition of students with disabilities from high school, and the postsecondary education environment. He conducts trainings and provides technical assistance for the Northeast ADA across its region of New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Mr. Zesski also assists in facilitating the ADA Trainer Leadership Network; a capacity building tool design to educate and empower community stakeholders to train other organizations and individuals about the Americans with Disabilities Act. Joe also chairs the Disability Issues Committee of Burlington County New Jersey.

Tim Henderson has been Chief Recruitment & Development Officer at Finnegan since May 2011. Tim previously served as Holland & Hart LLP’s Director of Recruitment and Professional Development from 2007-11. Prior to Holland & Hart, he served as Assistant Dean of the Career Development Center at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law.

Tim earned his law degree from the University of Kansas School of Law and practiced law for several years in Kansas and Missouri. In 1995, Tim made a career transition and went to work at his undergrad alma mater, Kansas State University. At K-State, Tim worked in career services and simultaneously pursued his Masters degree in Counseling and Educational Psychology.

Jami Wintz McKeon is Chair of the firm and a partner in Morgan Lewis’s Litigation Practice. As the firm’s global Chair, Ms. McKeon sets the strategic direction of the firm and leads nearly 2,000 lawyers across Morgan Lewis’s 28 offices.

Ms. McKeon was elected Chair after serving in many leadership roles at the firm—including multiple terms on each of its Advisory Board and Compensation Committee. Most recently, she led the Litigation Practice, the firm’s largest group, which during her tenure expanded considerably both in the United States and around the globe. Under Ms. McKeon’s leadership, the practice achieved outstanding results for clients and garnered a number of significant accolades, including recognition from BTI Consulting Group as a “Powerhouse – Best of the Best” for Complex Commercial Litigation in BTI’s Litigation Outlook 2013. In 2012 The Legal Intelligencer named the practice one of its “Pennsylvania Litigation Departments of the Year.”

Mary Shen O’Carroll is Head of the Legal Operations, Technology and Strategy team at Google, where she is responsible for overseeing key aspects of financial performance management, outside counsel management and internal operations (IT, knowledge management, training and development, etc.).

Mary is also a passionate leader pushing forward disruptive technology and processes designed to change the future of the legal industry. To support that agenda, she is a Leader of CLOC (Corporate Legal Operations Consortium) whose mission is to help legal operations professionals and other core corporate legal industry players (e.g. tech providers, law firms, LPO’s, law schools, etc.) optimize the legal service delivery models needed to support the needs of small, medium and large legal departments.

Ms. O’Carroll received a BS, Business Administration from University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business.

Rebecca has spent the last 15 years helping law firms grow and thrive both as a practicing lawyer and then as a non-practicing firm leader. Most recently she served as a law firm COO where she harnessed the unique composite of her background as an economic consultant, a private practice attorney, and years in professional services to drive revenue growth, increase profitability and enhance the client experience by evolving how legal services are delivered. Currently, Rebecca serves as a law firm consultant.

Michael J. Heller is the president and chief executive officer of Cozen O’Connor. He serves on the firm’s board of directors, management committee, and heads the emerging business and venture capital practice. Michael approaches each situation with an entrepreneurial zeal, and his investing experience arms him with a unique ability to provide legal and business insight into a variety of complex corporate matters. He understands, first hand, the critical roles of modern executives.

Born and raised in the Philadelphia area, Michael received his undergraduate degree in 1986, summa cum laude, from The Pennsylvania State University, and his law degree in 1989, magna cum laude, from Villanova University, where he was a law review editor and a member of the Order of the Coif.

Dale Kadlec, a Senior Attorney within Microsoft’s Corporate External and Legal Affairs department currently manages a team of attorneys within the central region of the United States. Dale and his team provide legal support for Microsoft’s multibillion dollar commercial business across 18 states within the North Central, South Central, and Great Lakes Enterprise regions, as well as, providing legal support to Microsoft’s Fargo ND campus and Dynamics customer relations team. Dale’s primary legal responsibilities include advising executives regarding strategic business and legal issues; shaping and negotiating a wide range of licensing, complex cloud computing transactions, professional services and support agreements. In addition, he provides legal advice on privacy, cybersecurity, antitrust, compliance, intellectual property and dispute resolution.”

Sylvie Stulic is the Manager of Legal Operations and Litigation for Electronic Arts Inc. Ms. Stulic has been with Electronic Arts for the past 15 years. Ms. Stulic is responsible for the eDiscovery procedures and technology for all litigation and investigations at Electronic Arts. Ms. Stulic also manages the eDiscovery service providers for Electronic Arts. Additionally, Ms. Stulic oversees daily operation, maintenance and customization, training and support of Electronic Arts’ eBilling and matter management system, works with department heads on departmental budgets, manages all legal department site logistics and administrative staff, and plans and organizes all departmental events. After taking over Electronic Arts’ legal eBilling system, Ms. Stulic reconfigured the eBilling solution to provide the legal department with a better overview of the spend to budget and has started to review ways to best reduce outside counsel spend. Ms. Stulic is a graduate of San Francisco State University.

Harley’s practice focuses on complex commercial litigation and product liability litigation. He has
particular knowledge in litigating commercial disputes involving chemical coatings and marine
paint systems. He has an in-depth knowledge of the superyacht industry, including the contractual
issues and disputes arising out of the construction of such vessels. Harley also has significant
experience defending manufacturers of prescription pharmaceuticals and medical devices in products
liability claims, typically involving federal multidistrict litigation (MDL) and consolidated
state-court actions.

Harley’s practice often involves matters with cross-border aspects and international parties. He has
served as lead counsel in claims pending in Germany, Italy, Japan, France, Hong Kong, Montenegro
and Argentina. Harley has extensive experience with cross-border discovery issues and has appeared
before the Federal District Court in Dusseldorf, Germany. In addition to his litigation experience,
Harley has provided counsel to foreign and domestic product manufacturers in dealings with U.S.
regulatory bodies. Harley has specific experience with the Consumer Product Safety Commission and
has been responsible for negotiating, implementing and effectuating nationwide product recalls on
behalf of foreign clients.

Before attending law school, Harley worked as a reporter for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and the
Austin American-Statesman newspapers, where he covered collegiate and professional sports.

Aaron Sharockman is the executive director of PolitiFact. Aaron oversees PolitiFact’s administration, third-party partnerships and strategic planning. He also helps coordinate some of PolitiFact’s special coverage, including live fact-checking of political debates, the tracking of campaign of promises and PolitiFact’s fact-checking partnership with Facebook. Aaron has been with PolitiFact since 2010 and served most recently as the editor of PunditFact, a website dedicated to checking claims by pundits, columnists, bloggers and the hosts and guests of talk shows. Aaron is a 2016-17 Reynolds Fellow at the University of Missouri and co-teaches a class on political fact-checking at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. Aaron graduated from Indiana University.

JENNIFER BROWN is an award-winning entrepreneur, dynamic speaker and diversity and
inclusion expert. She is the founder, president and CEO of Jennifer Brown Consulting (JBC), a
strategic leadership and diversity consulting firm that coaches business leaders worldwide on
critical issues of talent and workplace strategy. Brown is a passionate advocate for social
equality who helps businesses foster healthier, more productive workplace cultures. Her
book Inclusion: Diversity, the New Workplace & the Will to Change (2016) will inspire
leadership to embrace the opportunity that diversity represents and empower advocates to
drive change that resonates in today’s world.

Claire was appointed Chief of Staff and Director of Legal Strategy at Shire in July 2016; a newly created role focusing on operational excellence through learning, development, communications and optimizing systems and processes for the Shire legal team.

Prior to her role at Shire, Claire spent ten years at Reckitt Benckiser (RB), a FTSE 15 company, where she was, most recently, VP General Counsel for Group Legal Affairs & Compliance. Claire joined RB from Fortune 100 US Company Gillette (now part of P&G) in 2006 as European General Counsel. At RB she managed complex legal matters across a wide range of functions globally, with responsibility for major investigations, litigation, compliance and the Group’s corporate and commercial operations. She created i-Legal, a self-service portal that utilized technology and tools to enhance the delivery of in-house legal services. This won the Financial Times Most Innovative Legal Team in Europe Award in 2014. Her more recent work at Shire includes building a bespoke learning program designed specifically for the in-house legal team which won CV Magazine’s Best Transformation & Leadership Program – Global, 2017.

Claire trained in London before relocating to Australia where she practised at Allens and King Wood Mallesons. She is admitted to practice in England & Wales and Victoria (Australia).

Claire is a qualified executive coach, a Gallup certified StrengthsFinder coach and co-founder of the in house mentoring program, MOSAIC (www.mosaicforlawyers.com). She sits on the Board of ACC Europe.

Ama has been the Legal Strategy Manager at Shire since January 2017, working with Claire in a newly created team. Her role Shire revolves around a project called pod (which stands for people-operations- development), the Global Legal Department’s transformation project designed to share knowledge, inspire learning, create connections and build the future. One element of the project has already been recognized with an award from Corporate Vision Magazine.

Prior to her role at Shire, Ama spent three years at Reckitt Benckiser (RB), a FTSE 15 company, as Legal Manager. As part of the in-house legal team, she worked on the operating model as part of a global re organisation, provided legal support for the R&D and marketing functions on powerbrands including Durex, Nurofen, Veet and others, and contributed to a variety of compliance projects including the annual roll-out of compliance training to the business. In parallel, she was building and overseeing the i-Legal transformation project, which focused on providing self-service legal support, which won the Financial Times Most Innovative Legal Team in Europe Award in 2014. Ama joined RB from Fortune 100 US Company Oracle, and has also worked at several small enterprises in the healthcare and e-commerce industries, where she was involved with specialty technology development & implementation. Originally from Eastern Europe, Ama spent most of her life in the US, where she started her professional career before relocating to the UK. Ama’s experience from both sides of the pond helps to bridge international perspectives on global projects.

Ama is also the programme coordinator at pro-bono in-house mentoring programme MOSAIC and sits on the advisory board of Aspire (programme for new and aspiring lawyers).

Brian Krebs is the author of KrebsonSecurity.com, a daily news site dedicated to in-depth cyber security news and investigation, with a special focus on cybercrime. He is also the author of a book to be published by Sourcebooks in October 2014, called Spam Nation.

For the third year running, KrebsonSecurity.com was voted the Blog That Best Represents the Security Industry by judges at the 2013 RSA Conference, the world’s largest computer security gathering. KrebsonSecurity.com also won the “Most Educational Security Blog” award, and last year Krebs was presented with the “Security Bloggers Hall of Fame Award,” alongside noted security expert Bruce Schneier.

Debbie Epstein Henry is an internationally recognized expert, consultant, best-selling author and public speaker on careers, workplaces, women and law. After practicing as a litigator, in 1999, Debbie founded Flex-Time Lawyers LLC to provide consulting, training and speaking services. She renamed her consulting practice DEH Consulting, Speaking, Writing to more accurately capture the breadth of her work.

Debbie consults with companies, law firms and other professional service firms as well as nonprofits, government entities and individuals. She regularly speaks at private retreats and events as well as at conferences and other public venues. Her international work includes multiple engagements in The Hague as well as in Paris at the French Senate and in London and Vienna and other cities abroad. In 2006, Debbie conceived of the Best Law Firms for Women initiative, a survey she ran for a decade with Working Mother to annually select the top 50 US law firms for women and report on industry trends.

She has written two American Bar Association best-selling books, LAW & REORDER (author, 2010) and FINDING BLISS (co-author, 2015). Debbie’s work has been featured by hundreds of news outlets including The New York Times, NBC Nightly News, NPR and The Wall Street Journal. Her public speaking, press exposure and advocacy enabled her to build a national network of over 10,000 attorneys. From there, she co-founded, with two colleagues, a second company, Bliss Lawyers, that employs high caliber attorneys to work on temporary engagements for in-house and law firm clients. Debbie has received numerous awards including being named among the Philadelphia Business Journal’s “Women of Distinction”. In 2017, she received the Anne X. Alpern Award, presented annually to a female lawyer or judge who demonstrates excellence in the legal profession and who makes a significant professional impact on women in the law.

Debbie volunteers her time with a number of non-profits including the Forum of Executive Women where she is a Member of the Board and Co-Chair of the annual Leadership Symposium. She is Chair of the Brooklyn Law School Women’s Leadership Circle which runs a national women’s law student and alumnae initiative. Debbie is also a Member of the New York City Bar Committee to Enhance Diversity in the Profession. She received her B.A. in Psychology from Yale and her J.D. cum laude from Brooklyn Law School. A native New Yorker, Debbie lives in the Philadelphia suburbs and she and her husband have three sons.

Courtney Carter is the Associate Director of Diversity & Inclusion for Jenner & Block. In this role, Courtney leads the firm’s efforts to recruit, retain, develop and advance diverse lawyers. Courtney works closely with the firm’s Chief Talent Officer and Recruiting department to develop a holistic approach to talent management and development that specifically considers and implements programs for the firm/s diverse lawyers.

Courtney received her J.D. from the University of Virginia Law School and her L.L.M from American University’s Washington College of Law. Courtney began her career as an associate at Balch & Bingham LLP. Prior to joining Jenner & Block, she worked as the Director of Innovative Initiatives at Diversity Lab, where she assisted with the implementation and management of the OnRamp Fellowship and the Women in Law Hackathon. Courtney is an active member of the National Association of Law Placement (NALP), the Association of Law Firm Diversity Professionals (ALFDP), and the Washington Area Legal Recruitment Administrators Association (WALRAA).

Jami Wintz McKeon is Chair of the firm and a partner in Morgan Lewis’s Litigation Practice. As the firm’s global Chair, Ms. McKeon sets the strategic direction of the firm and leads nearly 2,000 lawyers across Morgan Lewis’s 28 offices.

Ms. McKeon was elected Chair after serving in many leadership roles at the firm—including multiple terms on each of its Advisory Board and Compensation Committee. Most recently, she led the Litigation Practice, the firm’s largest group, which during her tenure expanded considerably both in the United States and around the globe. Under Ms. McKeon’s leadership, the practice achieved outstanding results for clients and garnered a number of significant accolades, including recognition from BTI Consulting Group as a “Powerhouse – Best of the Best” for Complex Commercial Litigation in BTI’s Litigation Outlook 2013. In 2012 The Legal Intelligencer named the practice one of its “Pennsylvania Litigation Departments of the Year.”

Richard Punt is the CEO of Peerpoint, Allen & Overy’s global platform for self-directed consultant lawyers. He also leads the firm’s advanced delivery set of capabilities including having responsibility for the firm’s investments in legal technology. Before joining the firm, Richard was Managing Partner for Clients & Markets with Deloitte, responsible for the firm’s strategy and its approach to client relationships. He is a strategy consultant with extensive experience in the development and execution of strategy and organisation design.

Catherine Alman MacDonagh, JD created Legal Lean Sigma® and is the founder of the Legal Lean Sigma Institute. A former corporate counsel, Catherine is known for her thought leadership and first-to-market successes as a law firm marketing and business development executive. Now a highly rated instructor, speaker, and consultant, she works with law firms, legal departments and legal service providers to improve the way work is done, delivered and managed. She is focused on creating competitive advantages and organizational transformation through the development, planning, and implementation of innovative strategies, process improvement projects, and business development training and coaching programs. She is a Legal Lean Sigma Black Belt and a certified Six Sigma Green Belt.

A frequent and highly rated speaker, Catherine is an adjunct professor at Suffolk Law School and at George Washington University (Masters in Law Firm Management). She is also Chief Enthusiasm Officer of The Mocktail and the Legal Mocktail™, experiential networking training programs. She also has her own strategic planning, training, and coaching practice, FIRM Guidance. She is a Co-Founder of the Legal Sales and Service Organization, which presents the annual RainDance Conference and for which she has directed several groundbreaking studies on rainmaking and women lawyers.

Andrew leads the team responsible for providing transactional legal support to the corporate staff division at NBCUniversal, including Procurement, Global Real Estate, Facilities Operations, IT, Security, Media Operations and Studio Operations, and also provides support for the Owned Television Stations division. Andrew joined the company (then The National Broadcasting Company, Inc.) in 1998, and assumed his current role in 2013.

Prior to joining NBCUniversal, Andrew was in private practice with Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York. Andrew received his undergraduate degree from Georgetown University and his JD with honors from New York University School of Law. He is the former chair of the Legal Diversity Committee at NBCUniversal, and is a board member for the City Bar Fund with the New York City Bar Association.

NBCUniversal, one of the world’s leading media and entertainment companies, owns and operates a portfolio of news, sports and entertainment networks (including NBC, CNBC, MSNBC, Telemundo, USA, Bravo, E! Entertainment, and SyFy), Universal Studios (including Focus Features and Dreamworks Animation), significant television and film production operations, broadcast television stations, and theme parks.

Steve is a Senior Analyst at ALM Intelligence where he has written and presented on matters related to the business of law, including topics ranging from lateral partner hiring to law firm cybersecurity best practices. Prior to joining ALM Intelligence, Steve, as a Senior Advanced Research Analyst at Deltek, supported federal government contractors in their business development and competitive intelligence efforts. A resident of Northern Virginia and a member of the District of Columbia Bar, Steve holds a Juris Doctor from the West Virginia University College of Law and a Bachelor of Arts (summa cum laude) in history and political science from West Virginia University.

Federico Campbell is a Director in Navigant’s Information Security practice in New York. He is responsible for managing teams across the full life-cycle of a wide spectrum of digital forensics and cyber investigations and proactive engagements.

Federico has more than 15 years of experience leading digital forensics investigations in support of matters ranging from cyber intrusions, insider threat, financial fraud investigations, federal white-collar criminal investigations and SEC enforcement actions to aviation crash investigations. Additionally, Federico is a court accepted digital forensics expert and has testified as an expert witness on numerous matters, including on behalf of the U.S. Federal Government.

Paige Esser is Managing Director, Talent Acquisition and Management for Goodwin Procter LLP based in the firm’s headquarters, Boston. Goodwin is a Global 50 law firm with offices in Boston, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, New York City, Paris, Silicon Valley, San Francisco, and Washington, DC.

Prior to joining Goodwin in May 2014, Ms. Esser was Vice President of Human Resources for the Asset Management division of Fidelity Investments. In this role, Ms. Esser was responsible for partnering with business unit presidents to deliver all aspects of Human Resources to the Fixed Income, Equity Trading, and High Yield Investment businesses, including strategic workforce planning and recruiting, performance and talent management, employee relations, compensation development, and leadership coaching for both domestic and global offices. Ms. Esser also held positions of increasing responsibility for Sapient in Washington DC, Deloitte Consulting in Boston and Los Angeles and for CSC Index in Cambridge, Mass.

Ms. Esser holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Education from the University of Maine, Orono.

Thea is a Certified E-Discovery Specialist (CEDS) with a background in litigation support and e-discovery strategy. As an in-house solutions architect for ESI, Thea works directly for the client, creating a partnership between and among all disparate areas of expertise to achieve efficient e-Discovery.

Thea has worked as a litigation paralegal supervisor, litigation support manager, and e-discovery specialist at top-tier law firms, and as a legal coordinator in-house at a global fashion retail company. She manages the e-discovery in high-velocity litigation matters, forensic investigations, and responses to regulatory requests from the DOJ, FBI, SEC, and FTC. She helps clients in advertising, publishing, fashion, video gaming, and toy manufacturing by developing a plan for defensible e-discovery while managing costs.

Lorraine McGowen is a partner resident in the New York office of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe where she focuses on restructurings.

For over 30 years, Lorraine has advised leading financial institutions, syndicated lender groups, creditor committees and other parties from the U.S., Europe, Asia and Africa seeking to maximize their recovery or reduce their exposure. She has been the lead bankruptcy lawyer advising companies (including their boards) seeking to acquire financially distressed companies or assets. Lorraine interfaces with auditors, government regulators, investment bankers and others, and develops and implements mediation and litigation strategies, and negotiates reorganization plans and complex corporate and finance documents.

Among her awards, honors and activities, Lorraine was recognized as a Diversity Champion by the New York City Bar Association, as a 2017 Pipeline to Diversity Champion Award by Legal Outreach, and by Savoy Magazine as one of the Most Influential Black Lawyers. Lorraine is a fellow of the American Bar Foundation, and a member of the 2016 DirectWomen Board Institute. Lorraine is on the Board of Legal Advisers for Legal Outreach, a non-profit college-bound program for students in underserved neighborhoods in New York City, on the Board of the Institute for Inclusion in the Legal Profession, and on the Advisory Committee for the Vance Center for International Justice of the New York City Bar Association.

Rachel V. Simmonds-Watson is the Diversity Manager at Debevoise & Plimpton in NYC where she leads the firm’s diversity and inclusion initiatives as the firm’s first D&I professional, advising firm leadership on issues of diversity and inclusion relating to the hiring, retention, professional development and promotion of diverse attorneys. Previously, Rachel held a similar position at another law firm in New York, served as a member of the Office of Career Services at NYU School of Law and recruited for two major law firms in New York and Boston.

Rachel currently serves on the New York City Bar Association’s Committee to Enhance Diversity in the Profession where she co-chairs the Retention and Sponsorship Taskforce, sits on the Benchmarking Taskforce and is a Planning Group Member for the Associate Leadership Institute. She is a member of the Association of Law Firm Diversity Professionals (ALFDP) where she served on its Board of Directors and was twice its annual conference chair. Rachel is a member of the National Association for Legal Professionals (NALP) where she served as Vice-Chair of the Diversity Section, Northeast Regional Coordinator and is a frequent speaker at its annual conferences. Rachel was as a panelist for the 2016 Legal Council on Legal Diversity’s (LCLD) panel “Building Inclusive Teams: Systems for Solving the Legal Profession’s Diversity Problem” hosted by the Practicing Law Institute (PLI). She is the proud recipient of the 2015 Practicing Attorneys for Law Students Program, Inc. (PALS) Diversity Honoree award for commitment, contribution and dedication to the PALS Mission. Rachel received her B.A. in International Studies from New York University where she was a Founder’s Day Scholar.

Jill Backer was a criminal defense attorney in Chicago before going into legal sales. She sold court reporting services and technology to litigators nationally and often presented and trained attorneys on new technology in court reporting. Upon return to her native New York in 2002, she took a job at Brooklyn Law School where she built one of the first employer outreach programs in the nation at a law school. Jill spent 12 years at Brooklyn Law Schoo building employer outreach and other programs for the law school. She has been the Chair of the National Association for Legal Professionals (NALP) employer outreach section and is an active member of NALP participating in many work groups and events. Jill has been the Assistant Dean at Pace Law School’s office of Career and Professional Development since 2014. In that time, the Career Center at Pace Law has been recognized two years in a row for most improved employment outcome statistics in the country by National Jurist Magazine. Jill is a frequent speaker and author on the subjects of recruiting law students, diversity recruiting and Jill is a graduate of Marquette University and Quinnipiac University School of Law.

Catherine D. Zawierka serves as the Chief Talent Officer at Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, a newly created position at the Firm focused on strategically managing attorney talent for both institutional advancement and individual development purposes. In this capacity, Ms. Zawierka oversees the departments responsible for all aspects of associate life: Recruiting, Professional Development, Legal Personnel & Career Management, and Diversity & Inclusion, to integrate initiatives that lead to a sustainable workforce. Prior to her current role, Ms. Zawierka was the Director of Practice Management at Kaye Scholer LLP and previously held a practice management role at Dechert LLP. She pursued an academic-based coaching program at NYU and has counseled attorneys through times of personal and professional change.

Ms. Hoffman serves as the Global Co-Leader for the IBM Cognitive Legal Practice driving global strategy and execution across clients, legal markets and internal groups. She was certified as an IBM Thought Leader in the capability of Consulting in 2015 and has a patent pending for Detecting Clusters and Relationships in Large Data Sets (END920160377US1). She also co-authored the book “eDiscovery Plain & Simple” (ISBN-13:97814394079) and is the Co-Founder of Women in eDiscovery. In 2017, Ms. Hoffman became an Advisory Board Member for Integra Ledger and became a pioneering member of the Global Legal Blockchain Consortium and the MIT Legal Forum for AI & Blockchain.

As her give back to her local community, Ms. Hoffman co-founded and serves on the Board of the Community Hope Center of Osceola County which has helped over 20,000 homeless families since its inception. The Community Hope Center has received multiple awards and most recently was presented with the Bob Allen Award from the Walt Disney Company and the Good Neighbor Award from Bank of America for the fight against homelessness.

Larry Bridgesmith J.D., is CEO of LegalAlignment LLC and a practicing lawyer in Nashville, Tennessee. He is listed as one of America’s Best Lawyers, among the Leading Lawyers for American Businesses and SuperLawyer. He is a member of the International Academy of Mediators and a member of the Dispute Resolution Section Council of the American Bar Association. Larry has practiced in the fields of labor, employment and dispute resolution for over 30 years and served in management roles for boutique and mid-sized law firms throughout his career. He founded Lipscomb University’s Institute for Conflict Management and served as its inaugural Executive Director.

He holds a Six Sigma Green Belt certificate. Larry is an adjunct professor in legal project management, conflict management and mediation at Vanderbilt University School of Law, Belmont University Massey Graduate School of Business, The Nashville School of Law and the Albany Medical School Alden March Institute for Biomedical Ethics. He coordinates the Program on Law and Innovation at Vanderbilt School of Law. In 2013, Larry was awarded the Grayfred Gray Award for Public Service in Mediation by the Coalition for Mediation Awareness in Tennessee. In 2017 The Tennessee Bar Association awarded Larry its President’s Award for support to the bar in legal technology implementations and the Tennessee Alliance for Legal Services awarded its Justice Janice Holder Award for service to the legal services community. His practice in facilitation and training in organizational change management has taken him across the country and around the world.

Jake Heller is the co-founder and CEO of Casetext, a fast-growing legal technology company with the first and only commercially available AI-backed legal research assistant for attorneys. Before founding Casetext, Jake was a litigator at Ropes & Gray in Boston. He graduated from Stanford Law School, where he was president of Stanford Law Review, and clerked for Judge Michael Boudin on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Jake has been programming since childhood and worked as a software engineer before entering the law, allowing him to bring deep technological know-how to challenges in legal industry. Jake has been named to Forbes 30 Under 30 and the Fastcase 50 for legal innovation for his work at Casetext.

As the Firm’s first Chief Knowledge Officer, Mr. Benamram provides White & Case strategic direction on knowledge management and technology and leads the Knowledge Management department in developing and implementing the systems and processes that enable the Firm to use its collective knowledge to benefit its clients worldwide.

Prior to joining White & Case in late 2008, Mr. Benamram was Firmwide Director of Knowledge Management and Head of the Israel Desk at Morrison & Foerster. He formed and led the Firm’s knowledge management department and helped represent Israeli businesses in the United States and Asia, as well as global investors in Israel.

Mr. Benamram received his BA in Economics from Tel Aviv University Faculty of Social Sciences, magna cum laude, and his LLB from the Tel Aviv University Law School in 1995. He served as Chairman of the Law School Student Council, helped to establish and volunteered in the Tel Aviv University Civil Rights Clinic and received the Law School dean’s fellowship for his social involvement. Mr. Benamram was a Major in the Israel Defense Forces, where he served as a Tank Company Commander.

Jennifer brings ten years of experience in legal operations, technology and innovation with previous stints working at startups, in human services and in the arts plus her innate knack for storytelling to design elegant solutions, lead transformation, and drive innovation across an enterprise.

Jennifer is affiliated with the Corporate Legal Ops Consortium (CLOC), heads the New York City metro area geographical CLOC group and holds a BS in Business Administration (Finance & Info Systems), a BA in Economics and a Masters in Social Work – Clinical focus from University of Albany.

General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of DHL’s Supply Chain operations throughout the Americas. Also serve as global Chair of the organization’s supply chain legal practice group. Responsible for leading the legal, commercial contract management, government incentives, and compliance teams in the America’s region.

Lisa Smith is a Principal with Fairfax Associates and is based in Washington, DC. She has been advising law and professional services firms for more than 30 years on strategy development, client development, mergers, management and governance, partner compensation, leadership training and development and financial and operational performance and management.

Lisa has written books, white papers, articles, and blogs on the strategic and management issues facing law firms. She authored a chapter in “Law Firm Strategies for the 21st Century” by Globe Law and Business (2013), and wrote “Anatomy of a Law Firm Merger,” published by the American Bar Association (2004). She co-authors the monthly Fairfax Insights articles. She speaks frequently at partner retreats, public conferences, and roundtables. She co-Chairs the annual Fairfax Partner Compensation Workshop, and has taught in the Partner Compensation and Leadership programs in the Executive Education program at the Georgetown University Law Center.

She has an MBA from the Tuck School at Dartmouth College.

Dr. Hugh A. Simons is a strategist and veteran professional services firm leader. He is currently conducting research for a book on the fundamentals of elite law firm strategy and leadership.

He is formerly a senior partner and executive committee member at The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), the preeminent global consulting firm and the world’s leading advisor on business strategy. Over nearly two decades at BCG, he counseled clients on issues of strategy and direction across industries from industrial packaging to media and telecommunications. In later years he served as the firm’s chief financial officer and chief administrative officer. He subsequently joined Ropes & Gray, the AmLaw A-List law firm, where he served as a member of the firm’s policy (executive) committee and chief operating officer. He also oversaw the launch of Ropes Wealth Advisors, a registered investment advisor with $4 billion under management, and served as its Chief Executive Officer.

Hugh holds a PhD from Cambridge University, an MBA from the Wharton School where he was the Ford Scholar, and an undergraduate degree from Trinity College, Dublin, where he was a Gold Medal Award recipient. He resides in Cambridge, MA.

Gretta Rusanow is Head of Advisory Services in Citi Private Bank’s Law Firm Group. In this role, Gretta leads the day to day management of the Law Firm Group’s Advisory Services, in addition to advising law firm leaders on legal industry trends, firm performance, and their financial strategy. Gretta oversees all legal industry content developed for law firm clients and delivered through roundtable sessions with leading law firm partners and other client events, as well as regular reports including the Annual Survey, Quarterly Flash, Managing Partner Confidence Index, Law Firm Leaders Survey and the annual Citi Hildebrandt Client Advisory.

Gretta holds a BA and LLB from The University of New South Wales, and a Graduate Certificate in Design from College of Fine Arts at The University at New South Wales, and is admitted to the Supreme Court of New South Wales.

Gina has been covering the legal industry for more than a decade, focusing on the intersection of the business of law, litigation and public policy. As the feature reporter for The American Law Journal, Gina covers a wide variety of legal topics that have a direct impact on viewers’ everyday lives. The goal is always to get to the crux of the issue and explain why it matters.

Gina grew up in South Jersey and spent five years in Washington, D.C., while earning her undergrad in public communications and master’s degree in broadcast journalism and public policy from American University. Gina now lives with her husband, daughter and the biggest Yorkie around back in her hometown in Jersey.

Pat and three friends launched Valorem Law Group on January 2, 2008 with the objective of representing business interests in complex commercial litigation using non-hourly fee structures. At the time, before the great economic downturn, the firm had no company on the trail away from hourly billing. Now, 10 years later, Valorem remains the vanguard of alternative fees. Along the road less traveled, Valorem has learned about the many changes law firms need to make to maximize the profitability of alternative fee arrangements.

Pat is an active practicing lawyer. He has tried numerous cases around the country. He is in great demand as a speaker, speaking at both public and private events. He is a prolific writer, including his periodic column for the ABA Journal’s award-winning New Normal section and his blog, In Search of Perfect Client Service. His latest book, Alternative Fee Arrangements for Litigators and their Clients, was published by the ABA in 2014. He can be found on Twitter at @ValoremLamb.

Ron Friedmann has spent over two decades improving law practice and legal business operations with technology, knowledge management, legal project management, alternative resourcing, and process improvement. As a Fireman & Company partner, Ron advises law firms and law departments on strategic and operational issues.

Prior legal market positions include Integreon executive team, Mintz Levin CIO, Wilmer Cutler head of practice support, and director at two legal software companies. Ron was also a Bain & Company strategy consultant and an analyst for an economic forecasting firm.

Ron regularly blogs, Tweets, presents at conferences, and writes articles. He is a Fellow and former Trustee of the College of Law Practice Management and co-organizes the leading annual private legal KM summit.

Timothy B. Corcoran is a management consultant advising leaders of law firms, corporate law departments, and legal service providers on how to profit in a time of great change. Tim draws on two decades of experience as a senior executive of multinational corporations in which he developed a reputation as a driven, results-oriented leader with domain expertise in management, marketing, and technology, plus long experience in consultative selling. He has a track record of delivering increasing revenue growth from mature, high-margin product lines and driving product innovation and brings this experience to his consulting engagements. Tim is a well-regarded leader with high emotional intelligence and passion for winning, with equal interest in customer satisfaction and employee motivation. He’s a frequent keynote speaker and writer on issues related to law firm and corporate counsel relationship dynamics. Tim is the author of Corcoran’s Business of Law blog.

Mark is a global thought leader in the legal industry focused on legal delivery and education. He has had a distinguished 40-year career, the first part of which was devoted to legal practice. He earned an international reputation as a “bet-the- company” civil trial lawyer with stints as a decorated Assistant United States Attorney; BigLaw Partner; National Litigation Boutique Founder and Managing Partner; Federally-appointed Receiver of an international aviation parts business conducting operations on four continents; and outside general counsel to three insurance companies.

Mark now focuses on the business of law and developing and managing delivery models that improve legal service and education. He was a co-Founder and Managing Partner of Clearspire, a revolutionary “two-company model” law firm and legal services company that was the first to separate legal “practice” from legal “delivery”—the business of law. He is presently the Chair of the Advisory Board and Chief Strategy Officer at Elevate; a Distinguished Fellow at Northwestern University Law School; a regular contributor to Forbes where he has a column on the global legal marketplace; a sought-after keynote speaker; and CEO of LegalMosaic, a legal business consultancy and repository for his work. His LegalMosaic blog was recently honored by the ABA as one of the 50 outstanding worldwide legal blogs in their inaugural “Web 100.”

Mr. Bill Carter serves as the Chief Executive Officer at ALM Media Properties, LLC and ALM Media, LLC. Mr. Carter served as Managing Director of Electronic Discovery Business at EPIQ Systems, Inc. from October 2006 to December 2007. Mr. Carter was responsible for general management of Electronic Discovery business located in New York City.

He joined EPIQ Systems, Inc. in October 2006. He served as President of ALM Media Properties, LLC until January 3, 2016. Prior to the EPIQ Systems, Inc., Mr. Carter served as an Senior Executive at LexisNexis from 2000 to 2006. He served as senior vice president of the Small Law Business Unit at Thomson Reuters for two years. He served as a Vice President and General Manager or Managing Director for various LexisNexis business units from March 2001 to September 2006. He served as an Senior Executive at Gerson Lehrman Group and GES Exposition Services. He served as the Director of corporate strategy and development. Mr. Carter served as a consultant for Bain and Company from 1997 to 1999.

Mr. Carter earned a BS degree in computer science from Tulane University, a M.S. degree in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology and an MBA degree from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Nick is a senior analyst for the legal industry. He has worked with law firms of all sizes in developing and developed markets on issues related to strategy, business development, market intelligence, and operational issues such as pricing and performance systems.

Alongside his work with law firm executive teams, Nick has also lead research projects and published various books and articles on the legal market on topics related to market segmentation, market entry, and future trends.

Marcie Borgal Shunk helps law firm clients create strategies to position themselves ahead of changing markets. She artfully combines internal and external research to isolate the pursuits, delivery model and structure that will deliver the greatest impact and return for her clients. Ms. Shunk specializes in helping law firm leaders drive top- and bottom-line growth through strategic market research, practice and industry group planning, firm retreat facilitation, targeted business development efforts and tailored programs for the next generation of law firm leaders.

Ms. Shunk’s brings more than twenty years of experience and expertise transforming competitive and market intelligence into definitive action steps and go-to-market strategies for firms with 4 to 4000+ professionals. She relies on fact-based evidence, proven best practices and reliable performance metrics to convert skeptics into evangelists. An experienced coach and mentor, Ms. Shunk motivates high-powered professionals to embrace change and enhance performance.

Ms. Shunk is a sought after speaker and quoted expert. She presents frequently on market trends, the future of law firms and best practices in client relationship development.

Jeff Berardi is the Chief Marketing Officer for the global law firm K&L Gates, a role he has held since 2006. As CMO, Jeff leads global marketing and business development efforts for the firm’s offices located across five continents. One of the largest law firms in the world, K&L Gates has been recognized multiple times among the top 20 law firm brands in the Acritas Global Elite Brand Index, as well as within the top 10 firms in Acritas’ US Law Firm Brand Index for the past three consecutive years.

Jeff was personally acknowledged as the 2011 international Marketing Professional of the Year during the “Excellence in Legal Marketing” Awards, presented during the Hildebrandt Institute’s Marketing Partner Forum. A regular speaker at industry conferences, Jeff currently serves as a Seven Generations Board Member for the international nonprofit organization City Year and he is a past member of the Global Editorial Advisory board for Managing Partner Magazine.

Xavier Diokno is a data analytics director of Consilio, a global leader in eDiscovery, document review and legal consulting services.

Xavier Diokno has a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Southern Illinois University, a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a juris doctor degree from DePaul University College of Law.

He is licensed to practice in the state of Illinois and the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Prior to becoming an attorney, Xavier worked in the information technology industry for ten years in database administration, telecom and VoIP implementation, and software development. As a director of Consilio’s Data Analytics group, Xavier oversees projects that involve Immediate Case AssessmentsTM, technology-assisted review and analytics research.

Xavier Rodriguez is a former Texas Supreme Court Justice and a current United States District Judge for the Western District of Texas. Previously, he was a partner at Fulbright & Jaworski (now Norton Rose Fulbright). Judge Rodriguez serves as an adjunct professor at St. Mary’s University School of Law and is a frequent speaker and author on employment law, discovery, and arbitration issues. He received his bachelor’s degree from Harvard University, a master’s degree from the University of Texas, and a J.D. from University of Texas Law School.

United States Magistrate Judge William Matthewman was appointed to the federal bench in 2012. He sits in the West Palm Beach division of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. As a United States Magistrate Judge, he handles both civil and criminal cases. He has presided over trials, evidentiary hearings, discovery hearings, extradition matters, suppression hearings, initial appearance, bond and detention hearings, as well as settlement conferences and numerous other matters. He routinely encounters e-discovery issues and has issued numerous orders and opinions relating to electronic discovery matters. He has also instructed or presented on various issues, including e-discovery, at the University of Florida School of Law, the Sedona Conference, the University of Miami Law School and before other groups, bar associations and at seminars. Before his judicial appointment, Judge Matthewman was a very active trial attorney who handled both criminal and civil cases. He is AV rated by Martindale Hubbell and has been a member of The Florida Bar and a trial lawyer since 1983. He was a Florida Bar Board Certified criminal trial attorney. As a trial attorney, he handled numerous federal capital cases in various jurisdictions and tried many high profile, lengthy state and federal cases, some of which trials were covered on television programs such as Dateline, 48 Hours and live on In-Session television. He graduated from the University of Florida School of Law with Honors and was Research Editor on the University of Florida Law Review. He began his career with Holland & Knight in Miami, Florida in 1983 and was also an associate and partner in litigation firms and a sole practitioner. Before becoming an attorney, he was a police officer in Miami, Florida. He was born in Coral Gables, Florida, has been married over 30 years and has four children. His hobbies include running, fishing, snorkeling and hiking.

William Hamilton is a Legal Skills Professor at the University of Florida Levin College of Law where he teaches electronic discovery and complex litigation. Mr. Hamilton is the co-author of the LexisNexis Practice Guide Florida e-Discovery and Evidence and co-author of “A Student Electronic Discovery Primer.” Mr. Hamilton is also the General Editor of the LexisNexis Practice Guide: Florida Contract Litigation. Mr. Hamilton has been recognized in Chambers USA, Florida Legal Elite, Best Lawyers in America, and Florida Super Lawyers.

Ms. Curtis is recognized by Chambers as a leading individual, nationally, in the area of eDiscovery. She is the chair of Orrick’s eDiscovery and Information Governance Group. As head of practice analytics and service innovations, she assists practice groups across the firm with project management, process mapping, strategic staffing, deployment of technology and other innovations in the delivery of legal services.

Orrick is a leading global law firm with a particular focus on serving companies in the technology, energy and financial sectors. We are recognized worldwide for delivering the highest quality, commercially oriented legal advice and for our culture of innovation and collaboration.

As the supervisor of Practice Technology Consulting, Warren is responsible for providing technical and professional leadership to the firm’s Discovery Technology Project Managers on the daily litigation project workflows. He also provides advanced technical and workflow guidance to the litigation attorneys and paralegals regarding litigation support work related to e-discovery, document reviews, document productions and trial preparation. Additionally, he heads the project management team in handling e-discovery vendor relations. Including managing vendor selection based on the following: building and consistently tracking vendor cost comparison matrices based on estimated discovery costs, and maintenance of vendor capability and evaluation data.

Warren has twenty years of experience in the legal industry. Initially responsible for building and maintaining network infrastructure, he transitioned to supporting the technology-heavy practice areas such as e-commerce, patent infringement, and intellectual property. Now with experience commensurate of an international law firm, he continues to develop his technical skills and knowledge of electronic discovery from pro bono to large complex securities-based litigations.

As a part of Latham’s Practice Support Services, the Practice Technology Consulting team is dedicated to advising litigation case teams in the most effective use of technology in their matters, focusing on the processes for collecting, review, and production of our clients’ electronically stored information during document discovery.

Shannon Capone Kirk is E-Discovery Counsel at Ropes & Gray where she focuses exclusively on electronic discovery law. Shannon is a contributing author on two books on E-Discovery and has published numerous articles on the topic in publications such as: Law Technology News, Corporate Legal Times, National Law Journal, Sue Magazine. Shannon also conducts CLE courses for attorneys and routinely speaks on E-Discovery. Shannon is a member of Suffolk Law School’s faculty, teaching E-Discovery law. Shannon is a Sedona Conference Working Group Member of Electronic Document Retention and Production (WG1).

Recognized as a “Rising Star” by Illinois Super Lawyers (2008) and Massachusetts Super Lawyers (2011), Shannon’s practice is built upon her complex commercial litigation experience. In addition to working extensively on electronic discovery, she has litigated cases in state and federal courts across the country.

Ryan Straus focuses his practice on providing strategic advice to companies on legal, policy and business issues relating to financial technology. As an attorney with a background in both technology and financial services, Ryan assists clients with blockchain initiatives, payment and lending matters, including electronic payments, mobile payments, prepaid cards, virtual and digital currencies, consumer lending, and federal and state licensing.

In addition to his law practice, Ryan is Adjunct Professor at Seattle University School of Law and co-developed the Digital Commerce and Financial Technology curriculum for Seattle University’s new LLM in Innovation and Technology Law. Ryan is the author of Bloomberg BNA’s Emerging Payments portfolio, part of Bloomberg BNA’s Banking Practice Series, and co-author of the United States chapter of “The Law of Bitcoin.”

Ryan is a frequent speaker on a wide range of consumer finance topics, including issues related to new product development, operational compliance, and Bitcoin and the Blockchain, and has been interviewed by, and written for, many national publications, including Forbes, Time, American Banker, Bloomberg Brief: Financial Regulation, Communications of the ACM, the Association of Certified Financial Crime Specialists, and The Hill.

Ryan received his B.A. from the University of Washington, Business Administration, and Information Systems. He received his J.D. from Northwestern School of Law, Lewis & Clark College, magna cum laude.

Ryan is admitted to practice in Washington.

Ralph C. Losey is a Principal in the Orlando, Florida, office of Jackson Lewis P.C. He serves as the firm’s National e-Discovery Counsel in charge electronic discovery services and training. Mr. Losey also heads up the firm’s Litigation Support Department.

Mr. Losey is a frequent speaker at e-discovery conferences worldwide and a leading contributor in the field of Artificial Intelligence Enhanced Document Review. His work focuses on the use of active machine learning to find evidence in Big Data for the resolution of legal disputes. His contributions to the field include both academic-scientific research and litigation applications. Losey was lead technology counsel for the defense in the landmark decision by Judge Andrew Peck first approving the use of predictive coding, Da Silva Moore v. Publicis. Mr. Losey has written over two million words on law and technology subjects since 2006, including over sixty articles on predictive coding. In 2006 he started his well-known blog, e-DiscoveryTeam.com, which later grew to include over a dozen legal education websites.

Prior to founding Kira Systems, Noah practiced at the law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges in New York, where he focused on private equity, M&A, and securities. Noah is an expert on contract analysis, legal technology, and artificial intelligence; has spoken at conferences including SXSW Interactive, ILTACON, and ReInvent Law; and was named 2016 ILTA Innovative Thought Leader of the Year. He is also the author of Robbie the Robot Learns to Read, the world’s first ever children’s book on machine learning. Noah holds a J.D. from the NYU School of Law, an A.M. from Brown University, and a B.A. with honours from McGill University.

Mira Vayda Edelman is Director of eDiscovery Services at Facebook, where she leads the company’s global ediscovery and information governance policy and strategy. Prior to joining Facebook, Mira spent six years as a senior counsel in Google’s litigation group, where she was a member of the Discovery & Litigation Support management team. Mira began her legal career at Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP, where she practiced for eleven years handling complex commercial litigation and helped establish the firm’s eDiscovery practice group. She is also a founding member of the eDiscovery committee of the litigation section of the Bar Association of the District of Columbia. Mira was a topic authority for the 2010 Legal Track of the NIST Text Retrieval Conference (“TREC”), a joint government/industry/academic research project studying the application of automated information retrieval technologies to eDiscovery. She was the Legal Quick Hits program chair of the ACC’s Information Governance committee in 2017 and has been a member of the LegalTech Educational Advisory Board since 2015. Mira has guest lectured at several law schools on both coasts, and speaks frequently on eDiscovery topics that are most vexing to in house counsel, encouraging the legal community to adopt proportionate and defensible eDiscovery practices. Mira has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Juris Doctorate from American University Washington College of Law, where she was editor-in-chief of Law Review.

Mary Mack, Executive Director of the Association of Certified E-Discovery Specialists (ACEDS), has 15 years of hands on E-Discovery experience in both software and services. She is the author of A Process of Illumination: The Practical Guide to Electronic Discovery and the co-editor of the Thomson Reuters West treatise, eDiscovery for Corporate Counsel. Mary is certified in computer forensics, computer telephony, access and identity management, security and eDiscovery. Mary is a graduate of Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law.

Martin T. Tully is a founding partner of Actuate Law LLC, based in Chicago. He is a veteran trial lawyer with over 25 years of national experience representing companies and individuals in complex commercial litigation concerning a broad array of fields and industries.

Empowered by his commercial litigation practice, Martin is nationally recognized for his knowledge and experience in the fields of electronic discovery, information governance and data security/data privacy. His expertise helps clients to stay ahead of the curve in each of these fields with respect to developing law, technology, and best practices, whether in the context of active litigation and regulatory matters, or in seeking to avoid them. Martin is also adept at leveraging both technology and strategic partnerships with technologists to achieve client objectives.

Martin advances thought-leadership in data law as a member of the Steering Committee of the Sedona Conference Working Group on Electronic Document Retention and Production (WG-1), as an active member of the Sedona Conference Working Group on Data Security and Privacy Liability (WG-11), the 7th Circuit E-Discovery Pilot Program Committee, the ABA Section of Litigation, Privacy and Data Security Committee, and the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP).

In addition, Martin has published and presented extensively on the subjects of e-discovery, information governance, cybersecurity, and legal technology; has been recognized by Chambers USA, Nationwide, for Litigation: E-Discovery; and has been acknowledged by Who’s Who Legal as being “steps ahead of his competitors” and “widely regarded for his ‘superior knowledge’ of electronic discovery and information governance.”

Laura Roman is an E-Discovery Specialist at the New York Stock Exchange, currently managing all aspects of discovery for the Market Regulation group. Prior to joining NYSE, she worked as a Staff Attorney specializing in electronic discovery for large-scale, complex litigations and investigations at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP and Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP. Laura earned her bachelor’s degree in Government & Legal Studies from Bowdoin College, and her J.D. from Brooklyn Law School. She is a member of the New York Bar as well as a graduate of The eDiscovery Training Academy at Georgetown Law School.

As a former tech executive, Laura is committed to training law students for careers in technology companies and the firms that support them. Laura is founding Director of Santa Clara Law’s innovative Tech Edge J.D. program and Entrepreneurs’ Law Clinic, and a member of the full-time faculty. The Tech Edge J.D. is a certificate program being piloted in 2018, designed to prepare law students for practice in technology-related industries. The Entrepreneurs’ Law Clinic, now in its fifth year, uses 2L and 3L students to provide free legal services and workshops to the Silicon Valley’s vibrant entrepreneurial community. Laura also teaches two entrepreneurial law courses to SCU undergraduate engineers, and regularly speaks on topics relating to entrepreneurship law and intellectual property. Prior to joining the faculty at Santa Clara University School of Law, Laura worked in private practice representing technology startups and entrepreneurs. She gained her business acumen through her position as the first Vice President of Legal Affairs and Corporate Secretary to the Board of Directors at Cypress Semiconductor Corporation. The Recorder has recognized her as a Top Woman Leader in Tech Law in 2017 and 2014, and her innovative teaching techniques were recognized in 2015 when Santa Clara Law’s High Tech Law Institute received the Legal Innovator award.

Kelly Twigger is a Discovery Strategist and the Principal of ESI Attorneys, an ediscovery and information law firm. In 2014, the Wisconsin State Bar recognized Kelly as a Legal Innovator for development of eDiscovery Assistant, a web based curated eDiscovery research tool and learning center that allows users to conduct ediscovery specific research and meet their ethical obligations to be up to date on ediscovery practices. Kelly is also a co-author of Electronic Discovery and Records and Information Management, and a blogger for Above the Law.

Julie participates in corporate-wide projects such as email retention, data retention, business continuity processes, procurement and divestitures and social media management. Prior to transferring to Legal in 2008, she spent 10 years in the IT Department at AEP.

Julie has been a faculty member of the Electronic Discovery Institute for 6 years and she is the lead for the ACC Legal Operations Information Governance and Discovery interest group.

Jason Lichter is the Director of Discovery Services and Litigation Support at Pepper Hamilton, resident in its New York office. In this capacity, Jason develops tailored strategies leveraging advanced analytical tools to ensure that the firm’s clients receive the highest quality e-discovery services in a cost-effective and defensible manner. Specifically, Jason advises colleagues and clients on how to navigate the e-discovery lifecycle from pre-litigation information governance through presentation at trial. Prior to joining Pepper, Mr. Lichter served as senior counsel and east coast lead in the E-Discovery and Information Governance practice of another Am Law 100 firm. Mr. Lichter graduated cum laude from Yale University in 2000 and received his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 2004.

Mr. Baron serves as Of Counsel in the Information Governance and eDiscovery Group at Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP in Washington, D.C., and as Co-chair of the Information Governance Initiative, a vendor neutral consortium and think tank. Between 2000 and 2013, he served as the first appointed director of litigation at the US National Archives and Records Administration, and before that as a trial lawyer and senior counsel for a dozen years at the Department of Justice. In those capacities, Mr. Baron played a leading role in the government’s adoption of electronic recordkeeping practices and acted as lead counsel in landmark cases involving the preservation of White House email. Mr. Baron taught the first e-discovery course for PhD and Masters candidates in the US at the University of Maryland’s College of Information Studies, and has taught e-discovery at The American University’s Washington College of Law. He also served as a Visiting Scholar at the University of British Columbia’s School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, where he taught cyberspace law and participated in the first InterPARES project. He co-founded both the NIST TREC Legal Track and the DESI (Discovery of Electronically Stored Information) international workshop series.

Mr. Baron is the lead editor of the book, Perspectives on Predictive Coding, And Other Advanced Search Techniques for the Legal Practitioner (2016), has written over 80 published articles on subjects related to e-discovery and information governance, and has made over 500 presentations worldwide. In addition to numerous other awards received while in public service, Mr. Baron is a recipient of the international Emmett Leahy Award for his Outstanding Contributions and Accomplishments in the Records and Information Management Profession, as well as the Justice Tom C. Clark Outstanding Government Lawyer award given by the Federal Bar Association. He was prominently featured in the documentary The Decade of Discovery (2014), which tells the story of a government lawyer seeking a better way to search for White House email. The American Lawyer Magazine named him one of six “e-discovery trailblazers” in its 2013 issue devoted to “The Top 50 Big Law Innovators of the Last 50 Years.” In connection with issues surrounding former Secretary of State Clinton’s use of email, Mr. Baron has appeared on NBC News, Good Morning America, MSNBC, CNN, NPR, and has been quoted in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, TIME Magazine, and numerous other media outlets. He received his B.A., magna cum laude with honors, from Wesleyan University, and his J.D. from the Boston University School of Law.

James Sherer is a Partner in the New York office of BakerHostetler, where he co-chairs the Information Governance practice team and serves as part of the E-Discovery and Management and Privacy and Data Protection groups. James assists with oversight of discovery and Electronically Stored Information issues for firm clients. James is also tasked with “deep dive” technological and case law-related assignments for omnibus motions and case strategy. James’s work focuses on advising on merger & acquisition due diligence; information governance practices and policies for clients; and client corporate structure and business offerings regarding international data privacy requirements. Prior to joining BakerHostetler, James worked as an in-house litigator with a Fortune 500 company and previously practiced litigation in New York. James holds the CIPP/US, CIPP/E, CIPM, and FIP data privacy credentials, the CIP and IGP designations, and the CEDS eDiscovery specialist credential.

James attended the University of Michigan, Central Michigan University for his MBA in finance, and Columbia Law School. James is a member of The Sedona Conference® Working Groups One, Six and Eleven and served on the Search, Achieving Quality, and Data Privacy and Security Drafting Teams. He is also a member of the New York State Bar Association EDiscovery Committee as well as the New York eDiscovery Counsel Roundtable. James writes, speaks, and lectures on ediscovery, information governance, privacy, investigation and merger and acquisition issues.

Farrah Pepper is the first to fill the role of Executive Counsel – Discovery at GE. Farrah is an accomplished and passionate attorney with deep expertise in litigation, investigations, electronic discovery, legal technology, data lifecycle management, and information governance. She is a trusted advisor and leader who is experienced at building in‐house and law firm teams to solve business challenges, create enterprise value and reduce risk.

At GE, Farrah created and leads the GE Discovery COE (Center of Excellence) and works closely with cross‐functional teams across the company to develop strategy and policy related to the full spectrum of the life cycle of discovery and data management, including preservation, collection, processing, search/TAR, analysis, review, and production.

The GE Discovery COE team has been recognized with a number of industry awards for its innovative approach and ability to drive dramatic savings, efficiencies and risk reduction, including the 2017 Analytics 50, 2017 Corporate E‐Discovery Hero, 2016 ACC Value Champion and 2015 LTN Innovation Award. Farrah has been named a Rising Star by the New York Law Journal, a two‐time Top eDiscovery Counsel by First Chair, an Emerging Leader by DiversityMBA Magazine and a Hero of Simplification by GE’s CEO.

Ethan Ackerman is an associate with the Washington DC office of Morgan Lewis & Bockius. His practice focuses on civil electronic discovery matters.

Ethan Ackerman counsels companies in complex litigation, particularly as it relates to electronic discovery (eDiscovery). Working with clients and also with other counsel, Ethan tailors solutions for effectively handling, and avoiding, electronic discovery in civil litigation, arbitration, Congressional and administrative proceedings. He advises on all phases of trial and motions practice, including pre-litigation counseling regarding legal hold and document preservation, information management and records retention policies, protective orders and relief, discovery response planning, technology-assisted review defensibility, and cost recovery.

Prior to joining Morgan Lewis, Ethan served as legislative counsel for a US senator. In the Senate, he advised on legal and policy issues before the Judiciary and Commerce Committees, addressing federal courts and civil procedure rules, privacy, telecommunications, intellectual property (IP), antitrust issues, and information policy.

Edward J. McAndrew, partner at Ballard Spahr, is a counselor, investigator, and trial lawyer who helps clients navigate life in the digital world. Named a “Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Trailblazer” by The National Law Journal, Ed advises clients on cybersecurity, digital privacy, cyber-incident response, social media, commercial, employment, intellectual property, corporate governance, and regulatory compliance, and enforcement matters. He served for nearly a decade as a federal cybercrime prosecutor in two U.S. Attorney’s Offices.

Derek I.A. Silverman is a Vice President and eDiscovery Counsel at Barclays, where he advises the Bank on electronic discovery for cross-border investigations and litigations.

Prior to joining Barclays, Mr. Silverman was an eDiscovery attorney at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, where he participated in and supervised all aspects of domestic and international eDiscovery. Mr. Silverman was previously an attorney in the litigation department of a national law firm, where he focused his practice on reinsurance law, antitrust, and real estate disputes. Mr. Silverman has represented health insurers, insurance brokers, ceding companies, commodities traders and real estate developers in bench trials and appeals in federal courts, and in various disputes in New York state court.

Mr. Silverman received a B.A. in Computer Science with Great Distinction from McGill University, and a J.D. from Boston University School of Law, where he was a Note Development Editor for the Boston University International Law Journal.

David Horrigan is Relativity’s e-discovery counsel and legal content director. An attorney, law school guest lecturer, e-discovery industry analyst, and award-winning journalist, David has served as counsel at the Entertainment Software Association, reporter and assistant editor at The National Law Journal, and analyst and counsel at 451 Research. He has been published in or cited by numerous publications, including magazines, newspapers, and university law reviews, and his analysis of data discovery case law can be found on The Relativity Blog.

David D. Lewis, Ph.D. is Chief Data Scientist at Brainspace, a Cyxtera Business, where he leads their data science team. Dr. Lewis previously held research positions at AT&T Labs, Bell Labs, and the University of Chicago, and later consulted to numerous corporations, startups, and investors. He has served as an expert in high profile e‐discovery cases, including Kleen Products, da Silva Moore, Actos, FHFA, and the VW litigation. Dave was elected a AAAS Fellow in 2006 for pioneering work in text analytics, and recently received a Test for Time Award from ACM SIGIR for the invention of uncertainty sampling, the most widely used active learning method.

Professor Katz is a scientist, technologist and law professor who applies an innovative polytechnic approach to teaching law – to help create lawyers for today’s biggest societal challenges. Both his scholarship and teaching integrate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Professor Katz’s forward-thinking ideas helped to earn him acknowledgement in the 2013 Fastcase 50, an award which “recognizes 50 of the smartest, most courageous innovators, techies, visionaries, and leaders in the law.” He was also named to the American Bar Association Journal’s 2013 Class of “Legal Rebels,” a prestigious group of change leaders in the legal profession. Professor Katz teaches Practice & Professionalism, E-Discovery, Legal Analytics, Legal Project Management + Legal Process Improvement and Civil Procedure at Chicago-Kent and spearheads new initiatives to teach law students how to leverage technology and entrepreneurship in their future legal careers. He joined Chicago-Kent in 2015 from Michigan State University College of Law, where he co-founded the ReInvent Law Laboratory, an innovative multi-disciplinary center that focused on the intersection of entrepreneurship, informatics, programming and design thinking to better understand, analyze and design the law.

Bennett B. Borden is a partner at Drinker Biddle & Reath and its Chief Data Scientist. Bennett is a globally recognized authority on the legal, technology and policy implications of information. Bennett’s ground-breaking research into the use of machine-based learning and unstructured data for organizational insight is now being put to work in data-driven early warning systems for clients to detect and prevent corporate fraud and other misconduct. Bennett also builds machine-based learning models to transform and improve legal outcomes in key corporate events including mergers and acquisitions, information governance program development and enforcement, litigation and investigations and business intelligence.

Ari Kaplan is an attorney, author, and legal industry analyst. He is the principal researcher for a variety of widely distributed benchmarking reports and has been the keynote speaker for events in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and throughout the U.S. Kaplan is also the founder of the popular Lawcountability business development software platform and iPhone app.

Aaron Gardner is Vice President, Enterprise Solutions at KrolLDiscovery. Aaron’s experience in the litigation support, ediscovery and technology fields includes positions with some of America’s most recognizable law firms, including Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP and most recently Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP. Aaron’s career at Paul, Weiss spanned nearly a decade. Among other accomplishments during his time there, he was the inaugural manager of the firm’s Discovery Services group. As the Chief Operating Officer of Turnstone Solutions, an ediscovery services company, Aaron built a lean startup into a respected regional player serving Fortune 10 banking and AmLaw 100 law firms. In his current role, he focuses on helping law firms and corporations design and implement information governance programs in order to minimize cost and risk while maximizing value across their entire records management, regulatory compliance, ediscovery and storage management portfolios. Along with other responsibilities in this area, Aaron runs KrolLDiscovery’s enterprise information archiving and legal hold archiving businesses and leads KrolLDiscovery’s Microsoft Office 365 Security & Compliance and Advanced ediscovery practice. Aaron is an active public speaker on ediscovery and information governance.

Kristen D. Hardy is Compliance Counsel at Rockwell Automation, Inc., the world’s largest company dedicated to industrial automation and information products, headquartered in Milwaukee, serving customers in more than 80 countries.

As Compliance Counsel, Kristen focuses on the areas of corporate legal compliance and ABAC third-party due diligence. She regularly conducts internal ethics and compliance investigations, provides legal advice on issues involving the Company’s government and regulatory compliance, and assists with the overall development and implementation of the Ethics and Compliance program, including third-party due diligence, development of the Code of Conduct and other related policies, and the creation and execution of training related to high priority compliance topics across the Company. She is also an Adjunct Professor and co-teaches a Corporate Compliance workshop at Marquette University Law School.

Kristen is a member of the State Bar of Wisconsin, and recently served on the 2018 State Bar Nomination Committee. She is also the 2017-2018 President-Elect of the Wisconsin Association of African-American Lawyers (WAAL), an organization dedicated to ensuring diversity in Wisconsin’s legal community. Additionally, Kristen is a board member for the Young Lawyers Division (YLD) of the State Bar of Wisconsin, as well as a member of the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics (SCCE), Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC), and National Bar Association (NBA). At Rockwell Automation, Kristen chairs the Professional Development Committee for the African-American Professionals Network (AAPN) employee resource group. Within the Milwaukee community, Kristen serves as an Advisory Board member for GPS Education Partners, a community-based non-profit organization dedicated to developing manufacturing-specific youth apprenticeship programs throughout Wisconsin.She has spoken at several national conferences, including the ACC Annual Meeting (2016) and Chief Litigation Officer Summit (2016). In 2017, Kristen was awarded the Black Women Lawyers Association (BWLA) Emerging Leader Award.

Kristen received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Seton Hall University and J.D. from Marquette University Law School, where she was a member of the Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review.

Tiffany R. Harper is Associate Counsel at Grant Thornton LLP, a top accounting firm, where she supports the business in a myriad of human resources, bankruptcy, litigation, and corporate matters. Prior to going in-house, Tiffany was a senior associate at Polsinelli PC, where she focused her practice on corporate bankruptcy, restructuring, and loan enforcement, and a Judicial Law Clerk for the Honorable Jacqueline Cox of the Northern District of Illinois Bankruptcy Court.

Tiffany has been recognized as a Rising Star by Illinois Super Lawyers, a top attorney in corporate bankruptcy and restructuring by the Top 100 Black Lawyers, one of the National Bar Association’s 40 Under 40 Nation’s Best Advocates, a 40 Under 40 Illinois Attorneys Under Forty to Watch by the Chicago Lawyer and Law Bulletin Publishing Company, and was named to the inaugural “Hot List” by Lawyers of Color, LLC.

Tiffany is committed to serving her community and serves in a number of leadership roles. She is a Past President of the Black Women Lawyers’ Association of Greater Chicago, Inc. (BWLA), and has been recognized several times for her service and commitment to the organization, including the President’s Award, the Rising Star Award, the Distinguished Service Award, and the Visionary Award. Additionally, Tiffany serves as a member of the ABA Council for Diversity in the Educational Pipeline, and in 2017, the Governor of Illinois appointed Tiffany to serve as a Trustee for Chicago State University, a predominantly black and brown institution on Chicago’s Southside.

Tiffany is also is the co-owner of Uncolorblind, a diversity blog, podcast and enterprise aimed at breaking down barriers and increasing diversity in corporate America. She is also the co-founder of the Diversity Attorney Pipeline Program (DAPP), the first legal pipeline program aimed at developing and preparing diverse, female 1L law students for placement in large law firms and other prestigious legal positions. Through her work with DAPP and Uncolorblind, Tiffany regularly speaks on topics related to diversity and inclusion, and provides unconscious bias, cultural competency, and related trainings and workshops for various organizations.

Tiffany received her undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College, with honors, and her Juris Doctorate degree from Washington University in St. Louis.

As an experienced litigator now serving as Nixon Peabody’s Director of Diversity & Inclusion, Rekha brings her career-spanning passion for diversity and inclusion in the legal profession to oversee the firm’s diversity initiatives. She develops trainings and other programming featuring inspiring thought leaders, and works with the firm’s management, practice groups and recruiting, professional development and business development teams to ensure that diversity and inclusion are woven into all aspects of the firm. Additionally, Rekha frequently assists firm clients with the development of their own diversity and inclusion programming, trainings and related initiatives.

Rekha is an attorney who practiced litigation for almost 10 years. During this time, she was very active in various minority bar associations, advocating for greater diversity and inclusion in the profession.

Stephen Robinson is a partner, the Global Co-Chair of Diversity and Inclusion and a former member of the Policy Committee at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP. As a partner in both the Litigation and Government Enforcement and White Collar Crime groups he represents clients in commercial disputes, government enforcement matters, corporate internal investigations and monitorships. Before joining Skadden, Stephen served as a U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York. Prior to serving on the bench Stephen held several positions in the government including: U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut; Deputy General Counsel and Special Assistant to the Director of the FBI and Assistant U.S. Attorney for the SDNY. Judge Robinson’s experience in the private sector includes stints as the Chief Compliance Officer at Aetna U.S. Healthcare and as the CEO of a non-profit.

Judge Robinson serves on the Board of the New York Community Trust, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Lincoln Center Education, the Colin Powell School at CCNY, the Skadden Fellowship Committee and Legal Outreach. He is also a Trustee of the Federal Bar Council and serves on the Cornell Law School Dean’s Advisory Committee. He was recently named by New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio as the Civilian Representative to the NYPD’s terrorism committee. Judge Robinson is deeply committed to sponsoring and supporting diverse lawyers. Judge Robinson was profiled in The American Lawyer, which named Skadden as a finalist for “Litigation Department of the Year” in 2014. He received his B.S. and J.D. degrees from Cornell University and Cornell Law School, respectively.

Greg Wu is Managing Counsel at United Airlines and responsible for advising the company on a wide range of domestic and international employee benefits matters. He is also the President of UNITE (the United Airlines Multi-Cultural Business Resource Group) and serves on the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity Fellows Alumni Executive Council. He is a recent recipient of the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association Best Under 40 Award. Even though Coach K failed to offer him a basketball scholarship, Greg took his talents to Duke University, and after going undrafted by the NBA, he attended Harvard Law School.

Matthew Skinner is the Executive Director of The Richard C. Failla LGBTQ Commission of the New York State Courts, where he works closely with senior court system leadership in efforts to promote equal participation in and access to the courts and legal profession by all persons regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. Prior to assuming his current position with the state court system, Matt led The LGBT Bar Association and Foundation of Greater New York (LeGaL), litigated at Proskauer Rose LLP, and clerked for the Honorable Richard K. Eaton at the U.S. Court of International Trade. He graduated magna cum laude from Albany Law School and the University of Notre Dame.

Jennifer works with domestic and international companies to register, maintain, protect and license trademarks, service marks, domain names and other key brands, and she assists clients with the development and implementation of international brand management and enforcement programs. She also advises clients on copyright matters related to various works of authorship, including print publications, data compilations, software, online content and online databases.

Jennifer works closely with members of the Firm’s corporate advisory, health law and tax practice groups on the intellectual property aspects of transactions, including strategic alliances, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, and license arrangements for public and privately held companies. Jennifer also has experience counseling clients on a variety of information technology matters, including software licenses, software audits, and agreements related to software development/customization and big data.

Jennifer is the chair of McDermott’s Gender Diversity Committee and is a member, and past chair, of the Firm’s Chicago Pro Bono and Community Service Committee. She provides pro bono services to a variety of clients.

While in law school, Jennifer was an intern for the Honorable Barbara B. Crabb, Chief US District Court Judge for the Western District of Wisconsin.

Sallie is the Chief Development and Diversity Officer for Troutman Sanders LLP, responsible for Recruiting, Professional Development, Diversity, Community Affairs, and Pro Bono. Sallie was raised in Atlanta and attended the Lovett School and the University of South Carolina where she majored in history. Now completing her 15th year at Troutman, Sallie started her career in banking, primarily at Bank of America and its predecessor banks. She has experience in a number of areas including consumer banking, marketing, human resources, treasury management, trust services, training and community relations.

Sallie is involved in many civic, business and charitable organizations and serves on the boards of the American Jewish Committee and the Lovett School and is a member of the International Women’s Forum and ALFDP (Association of Law Firm Diversity Professionals). She has been active in the Atlanta arts community, and was Chairman of the Board of both the Atlanta College of Art and the Fulton County Arts Council. She has served on many leadership boards, including both Leadership Atlanta and Leadership Georgia. Sallie was honored by the Morehouse School of Medicine’s Salute to Excellence Award; she received the YWCA Salute to Women of Achievement Award, Atlanta Technical College Bridge Builder Award and the Women Looking Ahead Racial Justice Award. Sallie was honored as the Lovett Distinguished Alumna and received the Women of Excellence Award by the Atlanta Business to Business Magazine.

Lisa Kirby is director of Research and Knowledge Sharing at Diversity Lab, which experiments with innovative ways to boost diversity and inclusion in law through data, behavioral science and design thinking. Diversity Lab’s recent innovations include the OnRamp Fellowship, the Mansfield Rule, and the upcoming Diversity in Law Hackathons. Lisa has over 15 years experience in the legal profession as a large-firm litigator, strategy consultant and talent management professional. She writes and speaks frequently on new ideas in diversity & inclusion and talent management. She can be reached at lisa@diversitylab.com.

Paulette Brown, a partner in the Labor & Employment group of Locke Lord LLP was the first woman of color to lead the American Bar Association in its 137 year history. As a result of her initiatives during her presidency four major policies were developed and approved by the Association’s governing bodies that will have a long lasting impact. Brown simultaneously served as the first person of color to Chair the Labor & Employment Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association.

Brown is a nationally recognized leader and has been honored by the National Law Journal as one of the 50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers in the US and by US News as one of the Best Lawyers in America. She is also nationally recognized for her efforts relating to diversity & inclusion and has received numerous awards which include the Award of Excellence from the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, The Spirit of Excellence Award from the American Bar Association and the Equal Justice Award from the National Bar Association.

Joseph A. Tillman currently serves as Associate General Counsel to The Raine Group (“Raine”), a global merchant bank focused exclusively on technology, media, and telecommunications. At Raine, Joseph is involved in all aspects of the legal department with a primary focus on private fund matters.

Prior to transitioning to Raine, he was an associate in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, representing clients with respect to various corporate law and regulatory matters with a focus on the private equity industry. Mr. Tillman also served on Gibson Dunn’s Diversity Committee as well as the Firm-wide Hiring Committee.

Joseph earned his J.D. in 2012 from the New York University School of Law, where he served as a Senior Executive Editor on the N.Y.U. Law Review and as the Vice-Chair for the Black Allied Law Students Association. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Finance from California State University San Bernardino in 2008, where he graduated with honors. He is the author of “Beyond the Crisis: Dodd-Frank and Private Equity,” 87 New York University Law Review 1602 (2012).

Mr. Tillman is a founding member of 1844, a group of black male lawyers at New York City’s large law firms; the group’s name is in reference to the year that the first black person, Macon Bolling Allen, was admitted to practice law in America. Joseph is also on the Board of Pipeline to Practice, Inc., and is a former member of the City Bar’s Diversity Pipeline Initiatives Committee. Joseph currently resides in Brooklyn with his wife, Serena.

Linda Bray Chanow is a national thought leader on women’s leadership and diversity well known for serving as a chief facilitator who unites stakeholders and inspires action. Linda currently serves as the Executive Director of the Center for Women in Law (CWIL) at the University of Texas School of Law. At CWIL, Linda leads all aspects of the Women’s Power Summit on Law and Leadership™. Described as “a veritable Who’s Who of influential women in the legal profession,” the Women’s Power Summit™ is one of the most important gatherings of women lawyers in the country. Linda also directs the Consortium for Advancing Women Lawyers, a community of national thought leaders that gathers every year in New York to encourage members to work together to maximize efforts to advance women, including women of color.

Linda is an expert in the field of advancing diversity in the workplace and speaks nationally about the relationship between gender, race, and organizational power and how best to foster meaningful connections between historically disparate groups. Linda also designs and directs extensive programming for practitioners and students and teaches a leadership theory course at Texas Law. Her publications include Power for Change; Power in Law; Reduced Hours, Full Success: Part-Time Partners in U.S. Law Firms; Actions for Advancing Women into Law Firm Leadership; and Creating Pathways to Success: Advancing and Retaining Women in Today’s Law Firms. The Texas Minority Counsel Program honored Linda with its 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award and Lawdragon named her one of the nation’s 100 Leading Legal Consultants and Strategists for both 2016 and 2017. Travis County Women Lawyers’ Association presented her with its 2013 Advancement of Women Award.

Prior to taking the helm of CWIL, Linda served as Assistant Director of the Project for Attorney Retention, an initiative of the Center for WorkLife Law at UC Hastings College of the Law. Linda began her legal career as a commercial litigator at WilmerHale. She resides in Austin, Texas, with her husband and two sons.

Judge Conti is the Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. She has authored articles on e-discovery and is a frequent lecturer at seminars on e-discovery. She is on the editorial review team for the 2017 edition of Judicial Resources to be published by The Sedona Conference, which will address a variety of e-discovery and technology issues. Judge Conti currently is a judicial advisor and a member of the steering committee for the Sedona Conference’s Working Group 10 on Patent Litigation Best Practices. Judge Conti was a member of the Judicial Conference of the United States, and is a former Chair of the Judicial Conference Committee on the Administration of the Bankruptcy System. She received the American Inns of Court 2009 Professionalism Award for the Third Circuit and the 2016 W. Edward Sell Business Lawyer Award from the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Business Law Section. Prior to her appointment, she was a shareholder with the Pittsburgh office of Buchanan Ingersoll, Professional Corporation, now Buchanan Ingersoll Rooney (“Buchanan”), and prior to joining Buchanan she was a partner with Kirkpatrick, Lockhart, Johnson & Hutchison, now known as K&L Gates LLP. Judge Conti was a Professor of Law at Duquesne University and taught courses on civil procedure, corporations, corporate finance, corporate reorganizations and bankruptcy.

In his 10+ years of industry experience, Kausheek has held a variety of technical and management roles in consulting, telecommunication and pharmaceutical space. In July 2014, Kausheek was named to his current role as Head of IT EFP Legal services at Boehringer Ingelheim. His global team supports the Legal functions in the countries with consulting, project activities, and operational support for key capabilities such as Legal Hold management, eSignatures, eDiscovery collections, legal matter management & ebilling, contract management, trademarks & intellectual property documents management, IP cost portfolio and physical records management. The global eDiscovery Collections team also reports to him that performs the collections for legal matters across the globe. In his current role, Kausheek has led efforts to harmonize processes globally; driven efficiencies and defensibility through technology adoption, smart resource management, robust workflows and solid documentation.

Kausheek holds an MBA and engineering degree. His mantra is learn, unlearn and relearn with a passion for new and evolving technology. He is always looking to step forward into growth rather than step back to safety. He was a Judge in Connecticut Invention Convention, STEM volunteer teacher for Junior Achievement and a mentor to youth venture teams as a part of Ashoka program. Kausheek enjoys his life in Ridgefield, CT with his wife and his newborn son Kleem.

Kelli has an extensive career in IT, from application support and IT project management, to site support management. She is currently the IT Litigation Support Manager at Rollin Braswell Fisher LLC (RBF Law), responsible for the firm’s litigation support technology, infrastructure, and eDiscovery operations. She has worked with law firms across the country enabling them to effectively leverage technology in all legal practice areas. Kelli uses her technical expertise to consult with attorneys, paralegals and clients regarding ESI data collection, storage, litigation holds, document review processes, production, trial, and project management. She also manages the technological aspects of the firm by working with vendors.

Kelli’s significant experience has made her a leader in her industry, presenting at ESI roundtables and holding several industry-recognized certifications. She has experience managing cases through the entire EDRM (Electronic Discovery Reference Model), which includes everything from interviewing custodians to trial presentation. She has a broad range of experience with commercial litigation matters and specifically products liability, financial services, employment, SEC, and IP cases.

Kelli has a degree in Management Information Systems and Web Development. She is CaseMap Administrator Certified and a Certified e-Discovery Specialist (CEDS). Kelli is also a member of the Association of Certified eDiscovery Specialists and Women in eDiscovery for the Denver and Chicago chapters.

James L. Michalowicz is the Senior Manager – Legal Operations Business Performance for TE Connectivity based in Berwyn, PA. He serves as the law department’s leader for the company’s TE Operating Advantage and Extraordinary Customer Experience programs. His areas of expertise include litigation management, eDiscovery, information governance and law department operations management. Mr. Michalowicz has worked 13 years in-house serving in various law department operation leadership roles at DuPont and Tyco International. He is a charter member of both the Sedona Conference Working Group One and Georgetown Advanced eDiscovery Institute advisory board. In addition, Mr. Michalowicz is a Six Sigma Black Belt and has developed legal analytics models to measure the performance of legal services.

Gabrielle Lyse Brown is the Director of Diversity and Inclusion for the New York City Bar Association, where she leads the Association’s efforts to enhance diversity in the legal profession across a broad range of internal and external constituents, including law firms, corporate legal departments, nonprofit organizations and educational institutions to foster diverse and inclusive environments. In this capacity, Gabrielle spearheads the Association’s qualitative and quantitative research and develops individualized strategies to increase the retention and advancement of women and minority attorneys in the Office for Diversity’s signatory law firms. Previously, she founded the City Bar’s Pipeline Initiative, developing comprehensive programming for inner-city students to address academic support and enrichment, professional and substantive skill development, networking/mentoring opportunities and exposure to the legal profession.

She is a frequent speaker and trains organizations on data-driven initiatives, implicit bias, professional readiness, mentoring, networking, and developing diversity and inclusion “better practices.” She has spoken at the Practicing Law Institute (PLI), Bloomberg Big Law Diversity Summit, and ALM Legal Week, and her work has been featured in publications including the New York Times, New York Law Journal, Bloomberg, Crain’s New York Business and Thomson Reuters. She is a recipient of the Minority Corporate Counsel Association George B. Vashon Innovator Award.

Gabrielle is the co-chair of the Council of Urban Professionals (CUP) Fellows Board and was a 2014 Fellow. She is a member of the Institute for Inclusion in the Legal Profession (IILP) Advisory Board, The Association for Law Placement (NALP), the Oberlin College Alumni Council, and serves on the Executive Board of Directors of Practicing Attorneys for Law Students, Inc. (PALS). Additionally, she serves as a special advisor to the Pipeline to Practice Foundation and as a consultant to the New York Financial Services Diversity Group.

Michelle Silverthorn is a recognized leader in diversity, education, and inter-generational dynamics. As the Diversity & Education Director for the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism, Michelle expands the Commission’s national presence through blogs, social networking sites, and online discussion groups on legal education, diversity and young lawyers.

Michelle is also the chief instructional designer for the Commission’s numerous educational offerings, including our new hour-long series of online interactive courses. In addition, Michelle works with law schools, law students and other legal groups, developing interactive and dynamic education courses and workshops. She writes and speaks frequently on inter-generational issues in the workplace. She is certified both in instructional design and intercultural competency.

Prior to joining the Commission, Michelle worked as a litigation associate with Schiff Hardin in Chicago and Latham & Watkins in New York City. She also previously worked as an arts and entertainment journalist in Trinidad and Tobago, a legal researcher in Puno, Peru and Geneva, Switzerland, and a volunteer teacher in Gaborone, Botswana and Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Michelle grew up in the Caribbean and now lives in Chicago with her husband Daniel and their two daughters. She volunteers in her local and professional community, including serving as Co-Chair of the Michigan Law Alumni Club of Chicago, Director for the Princeton Club of Chicago, and an elected Community Representative for her Local School Council. Michelle received her undergraduate degree from Princeton University and her law degree from the University of Michigan Law School.

Valerie Jackson is the Senior Advisor to the Management Committee and Firmwide Director of Diversity and Inclusion for K&L Gates. A former securities and corporate governance lawyer, Valerie leverages fifteen years of legal industry experience to lead culture change efforts across the firm’s offices in the Americas, Asia, Australia, Europe and the Middle East, while developing partnerships with firm clients and advising business leaders on growing revenue through smart talent strategies and increased client and employee engagement.

During Valerie’s tenure at K&L Gates, the firm has been recognized as a Top Ten Family Friendly Firm, with specific honors in the Gender Equity category, by Yale Law Women; was named the “Outstanding Law Firm for Furthering Women’s Advancement” by Chambers USA for our work in the areas of recruitment, retention and promotion; is rated a Best Place to Work for LGBT Equality by the Human Rights Campaign’s (US) Corporate Equality Index survey, and is rated a Top 50 Employer for LGBT Equality by the Stonewall (UK) Workplace Equality Index. The firm also has received numerous recognitions from clients for our diverse client teams and leadership.

Valerie was a founding member of the Executive Leadership Board of the E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (DuPont) Minority Counsel Network and served on the Board of NALP, the premier association for legal career professionals in the U.S. and Canada. She also served on the Advisory Council of the Public Leadership Education Network, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to preparing college women for leadership, and co-founded The Seneca, Inc., a nonprofit organization that has focused on increasing opportunities for women at Harvard University for nearly twenty years. Recently named a “NALP Diversity Champion,” Valerie is a recipient of The Network Journal’s “40 Under 40” Achievement Award.

Valerie coaches professionals around the world on developing successful and satisfying careers and speaks nationally on business development, talent development, and diversity and inclusion in legal and corporate environments. A classically trained pianist, Valerie has lived in six countries and can communicate in eight languages.

Rachel Ryan counsels health care systems, hospitals, physicians and physician practices on regulatory, compliance and transactional matters. She assists her clients in developing the proper legal structures to implement their hospital-physician alignment strategies, including professional service arrangements, employment agreements, co-management contracts and captive professional corporation vehicles.

As a member of the firm’s Health Care Practice Group, Rachel advises her clients on a wide range of state and federal health care laws, including the Stark Law, the Anti-kickback Statute, the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Rachel’s experience includes preparing and negotiating employment agreements, on-call agreements, exclusive service agreements, co-management agreements, and managed care agreements; guiding clients through voluntary disclosures to CMS and OIG; and assisting clients with physician practice acquisitions.

Rachel currently serves as Vice Chair of the firm’s Diversity and Inclusion Committee.

John Iino is Reed Smith’s Global Chair, Diversity & Inclusion and serves as our Chief Diversity Officer. In this role, he acts as a change agent for Reed Smith’s efforts to sponsor and achieve diversity and inclusion in the legal community. He is a member of the firm’s Global Leadership Team and an ex-officio member of the Talent Committee of the firm’s Executive Committee.

In his practice, John serves as the Global Co-Chair of the Japan Business Team, responsible for coordinating the firm’s work for clients doing business in Japan and for Japanese clients doing business outside of Japan. In this role, he works closely with law firms in Japan and frequently travels to Japan and Asia. John has substantial experience representing U.S., Asian, Canadian and multinational companies in a wide variety of corporate, financial and commercial transactions, including private placements and public offerings, private equity transactions, cross-border financings, venture capital financings, secured loan financings, and state securities regulations, foreign private issuer regulation, strategic alliances, joint ventures, technology, licensing and distribution arrangements, and corporate governance matters.

John previously served as Global Chair of the firm’s Business & Finance Department, Chair of the U.S. Corporate & Securities Group and Managing Partner of the Los Angeles office. In 2010, John became the first Asian American to serve on Reed Smith’s Executive Committee and Senior Management Team. He has been named “One of the Nation’s Most Influential Minority Attorneys” for two consecutive years (2014-2015), received the “Lifetime Achievement Award” at the Los Angeles Business Journal’s Asian Business Awards (2016) and received the Leadership Award from the USC Asian Pacific Alumni Association (2017) and the prestigious President’s Award from the USC Alumni Association (2017). John is a frequent speaker and panelist on matters involving diversity and inclusion, law firm management, corporate law and cross-border transactions.

Jennifer Jaskolka is Assistant General Counsel at Xcel Energy, a Fortune 500 company providing gas and electric services to customers in eight states. Jennifer manages local and multi-district litigation matters, is responsible for the Company’s asbestos litigation portfolio, and handles Occupational Safety and Health legal issues for all operating companies. She serves as a legal advisor and strategic business partner to various business lines and functions, including senior and executive leadership, Corporate Safety, electric & gas distribution and transmission, and energy supply.

Before joining Xcel, Jennifer was a partner at White & Steele, PC in Denver, Colorado, and a shareholder at Sullivan & Ward, P.C. in Des Moines, Iowa.

Jennifer received her J.D. from the University of Nebraska College of Law and recently completed her undergraduate degree in Occupational Safety & Health with honors.

David G. Susler is Associate General Counsel for National Material L.P., a privately held, minority owned company, headquartered in Elk Grove Village, Illinois. With operating companies throughout the U.S. and Mexico, NMLP’s primary businesses are steel processing and aluminum extrusion, along with other related businesses, serving the automotive, aerospace, ship building, construction, and many other industries.

Mr. Susler provides legal advice and counseling relating to all business sectors and operations, including commercial transactions, labor and employment, litigation, real estate, international transactions, intellectual property and environmental matters. He also conducts training on various topics, including legal compliance, for business leaders and HR managers.

He has been with NMLP for eleven years and has practiced in-house since May 1999. Previously, Mr. Susler was in private practice for 12 years, focusing primarily on personal injury tort litigation. Mr. Susler is licensed to practice law in Illinois. He received both his BA and JD from the University of Illinois in Champaign – Urbana.

Mr. Susler has been an active ACC member since May 1999. He served on the ACC Chicago chapter board of directors for 13 of the past 14 years (2004 – 2010, 2011 – 2017); he held several officer positions on the Chicago Chapter board, including Secretary (2005 – 2006), Vice President and Chair of the Programs Committee (2008 – 2010), President-Elect (2011-2012), President (2012-2013) and Immediate Past President (2013-2014). In addition, he has been an active member of multiple board committees, including the Law Student Diversity Summer Internship Program (2006 – present), Programs (2008 – present) and Governance (2014 – 2016).

Mr. Susler is actively involved in diversity legal pipeline programs and spends a large amount of his non-work time mentoring high school, college and law school students. These pipeline programs include, primarily, the ACC Chicago Diversity Law Student Summer Internship Program and Posse Foundation. Mr. Susler actively continues these mentoring relationships formed with students after they begin practicing law.

Mr. Susler’s other volunteer activities include serving as a member of the Leadership Council of Posse Foundation – Posse Chicago (2009 – present, Co-Chair 2015 – 2017) and on the Advisory Board of Legal Prep Charter Academy, a charter high school with Chicago Public Schools. Mr. Susler is the co-author, along with his wife, Tina Martini (a partner with DLA Piper LLP), of “Inside Out,” a monthly column published in Chicago Lawyer Magazine, since April 2010.

Bess Sully is the Chief Human Resources Officer at Sheppard Mullin, LLP working with both attorneys and professional personnel. Her diverse experience includes recruitment and professional development in the legal and investment banking industries. Bess joined the firm in 2016 after spending 8 years as the Director of Talent Development at Kaye Scholer, where she and her team were responsible for recruiting, professional development, legal personnel, diversity and pro bono. Prior to Kaye Scholer, Bess was the Director of Legal Personnel and Recruitment at WIlmerHale LLP (New York), the manager of Legal Recruitment and Professional Development at Torys LLP and Associate Recruiter at Lehman Brothers. Bess is a graduate of Princeton University and earned her degree in Art History and Archeology.

Michelle P. Wimes serves as the Director of Professional Development and Inclusion at Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C., one of the nation’s largest labor and employment law firms. In her role, Michelle leads the firm’s efforts to attract, develop, retain, promote and advance a diverse group of attorneys across the firm’s national platform of 52 offices in the U.S., Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Additionally, Michelle leads the firm’s attorney training and professional development efforts. She is based in Ogletree Deakins’ Kansas City office.

Michelle has extensive experience in delivering strategic leadership, client development, and talent management programming. She is deft at implementing change management strategies necessary for comprehensive and effective diversity and inclusion and professional development initiatives and programming. Previously, Michelle practiced law for 14 years where she handled all aspects of employment litigation while serving as an equity partner at a Kansas City-based firm. She focused on matters involving employment discrimination, harassment, and civil rights issues while representing clients before the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights, the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, the Missouri Commission on Human Rights, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, as well as local, state and federal courts.

Later, Michelle spent four years on the senior management team of a premier Am Law 100 law firm as their Director of Strategic Initiatives, spearheading diversity and inclusion strategies and programming for lawyers across nine offices in the United States and Europe.

Maria Greco Danaher regularly represents and counsels companies in employment related matters. She specializes in representing management in labor relations and employment litigation, and in training, counseling, and advising human resource departments and corporate management on these topics. Maria has first chaired trials in both federal and state courts since 1986, and regularly instructs attorneys and students in issues related to trial tactics.

In addition to her litigation experience, Maria regularly acts as a “neutral” for the local federal court’s Alternative Dispute Resolution Program, and was a co-drafter of the local rule related to ADR. She counsels and trains companies on dispute resolution procedures and facilitative communication, and is a member of the firm’s Diversity Steering Committee. Maria also writes regularly for HR News, a monthly publication of the Society for Human Resource Management, and is on the Advisory Board of “You & the Law,” a publication of the National Institute of Business Management. She is a regular contributor to the Allegheny County Bar Association’s Lawyer’s Journal. She is a presenter for Pennsylvania Bar Institute continuing legal education programs, and is an adjunct professor for the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, and has been named one of the “Best Lawyers in America.”

Krystal Commons is an associate at Williams & Connolly and focuses her practice on commercial and complex civil litigation, white collar defense and investigations, and employment matters. Krystal has represented corporations, professional firms, and individuals in a variety of business disputes. Krystal has experience in a range of substantive areas, including professional malpractice, antitrust matters, and securities litigation and has been a member of several trial teams.

Born and raised in northern Virginia, Krystal earned a B.A. in History, with high distinction, from the University of Virginia in 2009. In 2012, Krystal received her J.D. from Columbia Law School where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar from 2009 to 2012. While in law school, Krystal served as a Staff Editor on the Columbia Journal of Race and Law and as a judicial extern for Judge Robert P. Patterson Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Krystal worked at a major New York law firm before joining Williams & Connolly in 2015.

Krystal serves as a member of the firm’s Diversity & Inclusion Committee, Women’s Initiative, and the Partner-Associate Committee. Krystal has worked on diversity and inclusion issues since the beginning of her career encouraging institutions to speak openly and think broadly when addressing issues of diversity. As a member of the firm’s Diversity & Inclusion Committee, Krystal’s focus is on the recruitment of diverse talent and the retention of that talent upon entry to the firm.

WINSTON S. KIRTON is a 20+ year biopharmaceutical industry veteran with international experience in legal affairs, regulatory affairs and corporate compliance. He is a member of Bristol-Myers Squibb Company’s (BMS) Law Department currently serving in the executive capacity of Assistant General Counsel, Head of Manufacturing Operations and Supply Chain Legal. Winston began his career at BMS in 2011 and has served as Senior Counsel, Senior Corporate Counsel and most recently, Head of Compliance and Ethics for the Intercontinental commercial organization based in London, UK.

Prior to joining BMS, Winston was the Principal of The Kirton Law Firm and the President of the affiliated regulatory consultancy, Corporate Compliance Solutions, LLC. The firms’ clients included biopharmaceutical companies, closely held companies and nonprofit organizations.

Prior to starting his own firms Winston worked for a number of pharmaceutical companies including, J&J, Pfizer, Forest Labs, Bayer Corporation and Akros Pharma in various regulatory, compliance and legal capacities.
Winston earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Niagara University and his Juris Doctorate from Seton Hall University School of Law.

Winston serves as chair of the governance committee on the Board of Directors for Harvest of Hope Family Services Network, Inc., a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose mission is to mobilize and utilize resources and advocate for policies that address the immediate and long-term needs of foster children nationally.

Stuart leads product strategy, innovation and design at HighQ. Stuart has considerable experience in business strategy and extensive technical, design, project management and product marketing experience. Stuart has a diverse background in collaboration, social computing, process improvement and digital transformation in the professional services industry, having previously worked at leading organisations including Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Hays plc and Headshift, an innovative social computing agency. Stuart has a B.Sc. in Business Administration from Cardiff Business School, is an international speaker, author and thought leader with a passion for transforming the way people work.

Justin Hectus, two-time ILTA Distinguished Peer Award winner, is the CIO and CISO of Keesal, Young & Logan. Justin’s dual role incorporates development and execution of the firm’s strategic technology vision and leadership of initiatives focused on managing risks for the firm and its clients. Justin is a founding member of KYL’s Compliance, Operations and Data Control Advisory (CODA) division and plays an active role in the firm’s cyber risk management practice, where he regularly advises clients and industry groups on opportunities and challenges associated with a rapidly changing technology ecosystem.

Justin currently serves on the Board of Editors of ALM’s Cybersecurity Law & Strategy and the Advisory Board of Privva, an analytics company focused on identifying and managing enterprise risk throughout the lifecycle of data sharing practice. He was also recently appointed a Commissioner for Technology & Innovation for the city of Long Beach, California. In his spare time, Justin produces concerts and is the co-founder of Long Beach’s award-winning Summer and Music (SAM) concert series.

Daniel W. Linna Jr. is a Professor of Law in Residence and Director of